Star. — London, England, 1831-05-24 00:00:00

znarlicting on a Sunday, and at the same time to prevent all possibility of public tranquillity being again disturbed. On Sunday, the 27th, tLe troops remained in their positions till sunset, when the advanced parties were withdrawn, the day having passed over in tranquillity, and without the least symptom of commotion. It is affirmed that no dissatisfaction has prevailed with the slaves at Antigua, on any other subject,than their apprehension of disadvantage to themselves arising out of the abolition of the Sunday market. In this ,done are said to have originated their mischievous proceed ings, in setting fire to the cane pieces of several estates. A zeneral meeting of the inhabitants of the island was likely to •iike place, for the purpose of considering the best mode of s •oneiliatin. , the interests of the slaves with the due observance of the Sabbath, when it was expected that Saturday would be ised upon as a market-day in lieu of Sunday. The last mentioned day had been hitherto selected by the slaves for narketing, merely because it was the only one in the week on which their masters could dispense with their services. The military commission appointed for the trial of the incendiaries who had been seized, had commenced its proceedings on the ih . One man was sentenced to be hanged, on circumstan tial evidence, and sentence was executed on him on the 30th. Another negro was under trial, but the commission had ad journed to the 2d of April. At Barbadoes, the Governor had given notice of his in to-Ilion to address the slaves of that island, at stated times nal places, for the purpose of removing from their minds certain impressions that a change would soon take place in their condition. In compliance with his desire, a consider able number of slaves assembled on the 29th of March, on ;he old Parade-ground, when the Governor addressed them in the following words:— "My friends,--I have called you here together to say a few, and a very few, words to you. The King, my sove reign, has appointed me to preserve pence and order iu this country, and peace and order I will preserve. Some of year enemies have told you that you are free, and that I keep it from you. Now I tell you it is false. Others of your enemies have said, that if there should be an insur rection of the slaves, which GOD Atmtc HHTY avert, that the King's soldiers have orders not to act against you. This too, I tell you, is false ; and I now tell you, that if one of his Majesty's loyal subjects is injured, or even a cane burnt, the King's troops will be out, and I at the head of them, and will be amongst you before the flame is extinguished." The Governor concluded with some advice to the slaves to remain quiet, and to attend with diligence to their respective labours. The slaves are reported to have declared that they were not disposed to do any thing contrary to their duty, and to have thanked the Governor for his advice and warning. The following is an extract of a private letter from Anti gua, dated the sth ultimo :—" As Good Friday and Easter Sunday have passed over without the least disturbance, we were yesterday, after a fortnight's duty, relieved from nightly guard ; and detachments of the 35th Regiment and artillery have been sent from Barbadoes. Martial law, however, con tinued in force, and will, until the court-martial has finished its labours, twelve negroes being in prison on suspicion of incendiarism. One negro was hung on the 30th ult. and I nave no doubt this ex ample has been productive of good." We select the following brief extract from the Dario Flamine»se, received by the Brazil Mail this morning : MO DE JANEIZO, MARCH 12.—Yesterday morning, at three o'clock, their Imperial Majesties arrived iu perfect health, at the Palace of Ma Vista, on their return from their visit to the Province of Minas Gera.. A decree of the Legislative Assembly, sanctioned by the Emperor, arders that in the Province of Bahia, no slave, residing either in a toi.n or the country, shall leave home, without being provided wait a ticket, dated and signed by his master, overieer, or superintendent, stating the name of the slave, his country, a description of his per son, the place to which he Is going, and the time for which the ticket is to be valid.—Diario Firtminerase, March 17, inclusive. These papal are chiefly filled with matters of local interest. In the Frankfort papers of the 18th instant, received this day, we have a singular article from St. Petersburgh. It ill, no doubt, prove highly amusing to the reader. In the list passage. we have a declaration, that Russia supports the claim of the House of ORANGE to the Throne of Belgium. No one ever doubted the fact. The following are extracts : VIENNA, MAY 12.—... The soldiers of Dwell:deli% corps are sent, in several detachments, to 'Transylvania and Moravia. Loybach is as signed to Gc- ern icki, and the majorhy of his officers, astbeir abode. All the individuals belonging to this corps receive from our government, so long as they are in the Austrian tertiary, pay according to their rank, and on the same fooling as the Austrian army, upon which they will have to subsist : errangements will be subsequently made with the Russian government, fur the expenee thus incurred by our treasury. A French courier from Paris has passed though here, on Lis way to Constantinople; he is said to be the bearer of letters of recal for Count Guilleininot. It is also said, that the same courier brought further instructions to the French ambassador here. respecting the proposal for a gereml reduction of the military force. It dues not, bosever, appear, bow such a plan can be carried into elteet, in the pre• sent state of things ; thet6l) here, as every where else, a diminution is very inuch desired. VIENNA, May 13.—Pour per Cents Metalthine*, ; Bank Shares 101 8—Allgcnaeine Zeilwip, May 10. St. PETrDEBL'aGH , April 24.—We cannot sufficiently express our surprise here, at the alighting manner in which foreign journalist* 'peak of the power of Russia, since the campaign in Poland; and we remember that they spoke in the same manner, when natural obstacles :and the weather impeded the war against the Turks. We temontan, also, how quickly these talkers clienged their tone, and lauded the military glory of Russia to the skies. Accordingly, nobody have doubts that the abuse they have hitherto lavished wiU soon be changed into panegyric ; and that ihe greatness and conduct of Rtissia will be again extolled in Europe, as they were before. Our Government is now saiously resolved to put en end to the Polish insunection, and no longe r to tolerate a out c of things, which, while it ruins Poland, may b:come dangerous to the r eighbouring coot tries, ord weakeo the influence of the greatness and power of Russia, in the affairs of 'he world. Even should the en ire army, confided to the command Count Diebitneh, be t:estroyett, which is impreuable--even .:euld the events of the war hike the most tinflvoumble turn.-rnasses of t%eps are at this moment it motion, which are doubly to make up for !ne to,s. anti to make the Rossini , name respected, and to give Europe ,scoria tq:zinst the intrigues of a democratic party, which every where tic! .he flame of insurrection, and was riot unconnected with the him?. ?action in Poland. The Emperor will Dever negotiate with rebels, or megnise revolutionary rinciples, and submit to the Sovereignty of the People, to which the !iodides' visionaries et Warsaw would so willingly eo homage. rould believe, that by an oppoeite mode of onduct. and by such co, cessious, he would undermine hisown safety, and tbst of the country. All proposals tending to such an objet will therefore be el:get:Aided, tl ongia made with the best intentions, and in whatever manner tiny tray be supported. Peace cannot return W the Poles, except by their submission. Every one confidently he liev,s that this is act glisten:, though the journals Zeds?, the Polish army to be invincible. It is said that the Emperor will shortly go on a journey. The affairs of Robison continue to engage the attention of our Cabinet ; which, a it seems. rowerfully supports the claim of the House of Orange to Belg , Faankfort Paper., May 18. R E FOR M IT A LTOG CT 11 ER."-.—." During one term, DO 1:-.t‘ (ken . 242 articled clerks were a d m i tte d as attorneys of the Court of Ranch, and upwards of 120 in the Court of Common Pleas.— Reform it altogether !"—Rertoldes Decimally Annual. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNAL& HER ALD.—Puniskinera qf Death.—ln adverting again to the cases of the two convicts who are ordered for execution to-morrow morn. ing, we wish it distinctly to be understood that we did not and do not object to the infliction of death in these Instances on the ground of a partial or injudicious selection having been made out of a calendar of eighteen condemned persons, who might all have been swept from the face of the earth together, if the government so pleased, in accordance with the letter and the spirit of sanguinary laws—our objection is to any se/edioes for the scaffold being made, if these were the worst eases in the calendar--and we are well convinced that, if the sentences are carried into execution, it will be under circumstances that do not justify th e shedding of blood either on moral grounds or those of public necessity. Au Evening Paper (the Courier ) says. Lt allusion to our remarks, " It wo u ld probably have been found that, abstracting the question as to the fitness of the law under which these men are wntenced,the selection was well made ; and we hope it will be admitted that, whilst capital punishments for other crimes titan murder shall be considered necessary, the Government will, in the selection of offenders to whom it is intended to extend the mercy of the Crown, have regard to the general character of the convicted." Here is a doctrine avowed which is nut more abhorrent to humanity ,han to every idea of sound and dispassionate policy. What ! if the crime for which a man has been tried and convicted does not in any view of it deserve death, is he to be hanged because on a secret investi gation it does not appear to those who are the dispensers of his fate his character is that of an upright and virtuous man If men were to be hanged for bad characters we might dispense with the hulks, and transportation, and imprisonment, and the tread-mill, and secondary punishment altogether. Again, if it be inhuman and unjust to hang men for certain offences, of which they have been legally convicted according to the roles of evidence in open Court, and in a judicial manner, is it right or just to hang them for allegati ons of bud character not proved accor ding to the rules of e vidence in npm Court, not coating mite the cog- , nizance of the Jury who returned the verdict, and only inquired into by a mode of proceeding arbitrary, inquisitorial, and extra-judicial ? A s to sheep-stealing, it no more deserves death, in either a moral or social I point of view, than stealing an ars or a pig, neither of which are capital offences by our law; sod yet asses and pigs are as well protected from depredation as, in the circumstances of things it is possible tbr such ani mals to be. But the man who is to surer has stolen a few sheep. True; but if he bad stolen twice as many asses, or three times as many pigs, his punishment, though severe would not cut him off in his sins, nor deprive him o; the chance of becoming afterwards a useful and indus trious member of society. Our Contemporary speaks of the other man as a burglar. We understood he had been convicted under the act which makes it death to steal to the amount of five pounds in a dwelling. house. This is a very different offence from burglary—but if we were misinformed, and the man has been found guilty ass burglar, his offence must have been one of those eotutraetioe burglaries, in which no actual violence is committed, and to say that, "he only wanted the physical energies of the common burglar to become a murderer," is one of the strangest modes possible of constructing an imaginary foundation on which to build a sanguinary inference. Is the doctrine of constructive burglary or constructive murder a whit bettor than that of constructive treason, so justly exploded from our law ? Our Contemporary says, as a raison why sheep-stealing is not punished with death in France, that there is in that country a " horror of crime against unprotected property." What has created it ? is it sanguinary laws, or mild ones ? And what has demoralised the people of this country so as to make property an very insecure ? Our Con temporary will know bow to answer both questions when we tell him that the English criminal laws punished upwards of :120 offences with death, while under the Code Napoleon there were but six capital crimes. Whit.; argument then, of morals or policy, is there for the sanguinary spectacle of to-morrow morning ? TIMES. —The inaction.—The elections for England, we believe, have terminated, with the exception of Pembrokeshire. We were told over and over, about six weeks ago, that Ministers thirst not dissolve the last borough-begotten Parliament; that a dissolution, under such circumstances, would be a coup d'etat, and other rubbish of that sort ; that the people of England, the "good people of England," were against the trumpery bill brought in by Ministers ; that the nation was 4 too wise," and too patriotic, and so forth, not to see that its interests would be beat consulted by letting about 150 families continue to return the House of Commons, in the name of the people of England, and to tax the same people ad libitum, for the supply of places and Casto be enjoyed by memb er of the 150 families ;—and that, abort, the country was so enamoured of close boroeghs, as to " ensure" a Tory Parliament in case of Ministers daring to appeal to the people. From others we were edified by bearing that a dis solution of Parliament would " convulse " the empire front end to end,—that there would be death and desolation in every county of Great Britain, and in Ireland a civil war. Well, what was our answer to all this ? The of liberty said, that if the exist. ing Tory Parliament would not apes to the reform proposed by Ministers, and sanctioned by our grasisus King, why, ft would be the bounden duty of his Majesty's Ministers to ascertain bow far the sentiments of the English na tio n might Wands with those of the Tory house of Commons, in rejecting the MB of sink What Involution can follow from events like this ? A notion manes said against itself, nor against a King in whose footsteps it faithfully andi supsetfully ad. sauces. William IV., watching fi e as p ect of she wall, saw what ameliorations his people await in Me fr. Ohneving is sirs which were abroad among that poop* Ms saw that their judgment concurred with his own. - When she it as a definite and angry obstacle W the of dais by King and people, his Majesty said, in Image oldie ssaslinttite, moseen "We must get rid of this block whisk isagliksear comma ." Be appealed to the people, and they in pessously =wad as they would have done had their bravo Mass& cheered them from the quarter-deck against any other mild he. The result is, as Mr. Bankes himself' informs us, Ant " the Bill, the whole Bill, is carried" through the House of COMMONS. The majority which supports it to the lair of the House of Leadsmen' but have its due weight with that Right Honourable Assembly, who have never, since the Revolution, la themselves in obstinate resistance to the people. An attempt, e ,h making by the desper a d oes of the Tory press to engage be Lords in a melancholy conflict with a unanimous nation, by calling on them to reject the Bill after it shall have passed the Ileum of Coatisene I ! And yet them fools boast of being friends to the church and the aristocracy, while they strive to plunge both into measures eivalent to a declaration of war against the people of England ! Where; let us ask these fanatics, or trattors—(for treachery we suspect to be at the bottom of inch advice)—when are there materials for a contest to be maintained by the Lards Spiritual and Temporal, again, . the King, the Commons and the Nation? According to the Tories, the great charm of our present Constitution is, that the several powers and orders of the realm co.operate, and must co-operate, in the election of the national representatives. Why, then the great body of the , including the House of Lords itself, must have united with the freeho dos and freemen of the kingdom in appointing the members of the new House of Commons about to meet on the 14th of June. Do the Tory Journalists wish that the aristocracy should eat its own acts, and quash the proceedings of an assembly which itself has now concurred in nominating? A pretty piece of consistency, to be sure! And if the new House of Commons has been chosen, not through, but in spite of, the influence of the aristocracy, then, by virtue of all the Tory doctrines, and if their panegyrics on the constitution as it is be not altogether insincere and ironical, a reform is wanting, which shall invest the general mass of property with a more wide.spread and more certain power over the composition of the House of Commons— with a power as, in fact, It is the obj ec t of the ministerial measure to bestow. The House of Lords, at all events, is much too wise to place itself in direct collision with the country, or to bring its own constitu. tional prerogatives into distrust or obloquy with a reflecting people. POST.— The Pit Chia—A Morning Paper, noted for pandering to the ignorance and the passions of the multitude, took occasion yesterday to pour out tome of its venom against the Pitt Clubs. The anonymous slanderer seems to forget of whom the Pitt Clubs are composed; hat they comprise a large mass of the wealth, learning, intelligence, and loyalty of the kingdom ; that to these Clubs belong, as classes, the Peer, the Member of Parliament. th e Di v i ne , t h e Country Gentleman , the Lawyer, 'the Soldier, the Merchant, hundreds of whom assemble annually through the country to perpetuate the memory of the Pilot the: weathered the st one who, by his undaunted firmness and his unrivalled talents, preset red Old Ragland from becoming a mere province of France. The writer carefully omitted to remind his readers of what he must wet/ know, that under this anniversary banner the soundest principles in church and stare have been for years past fostered and stimulated; end he as usual misled his iynoratte readers by opining Mr. Pitt's speech In favour of reform at a time when the tranquil state of affairs was such that no mischief could reasonably be apprehended from mo derate reform, conveniently forgetting to add that Mr. Pitt. as an ex perienced statesman (with the example of the horrors of the French revolution before his eyes), afterwards formally abjured the " green fancies of his youth" for reform. He was one who profited by ex perience : he did not consider history as an old almanack. A criminal information was yesterday granted by the King's Bench against the Publishers of the scandalous falsehoods against Mr. Neeld and his wife, the daughter of the Earl of Shaftesbary. A morning papfr continues its insidi ous a tt ac k s on th e brave and honest Belgians. It tells us that a representative govern. meat is not capable of combining internal order with the maintenance of external peace. Did the writer never hear of Switzerland or the United States? He speaks of the good temper and moderation of &sera/ Cluss6—a man, whose destruction of the city of Antwerp will always rank him above Rostopchin himself ! The impartiality, too, of Ito tosdtstery Courts between the people of Belgium and their own Ibis of too, la insisted on—and th e h onest Belgians are treated as abah:la, he not receiving their awards as boons In this way the value of the public press is wasted and the public skived. No doubt the King of Holland is wise enough to accept the terms whit* io unblushingly put the Belgians in the wrong. I 1 THEIR MAJESTIES. Their Masts Tits. the Landgravine of Brut ROMBERG, the Duchess of GLoucearzn, the Princess AUGUSTA, Prince GEORGE of Cameo titca. aad Patty, arrived at the queen's Lodge, in Busby Park. about twelve o'clock oa Sviday. The Illuetrioui Party attended Divine Service. %Nell 1;2% per;ortrdd by the Rev. Joux 31zitt wvrerra, her MASEbTri Chaplain in Ortliaa7. A dejestitc was vrrea at Iwo o'clAck, :ter which the Kira add QUEEN, and their Royal and distirguisited v;sitore, drove out in . pooy phaeton% in Bushy Perk. The Dike anJ Duchess of CUMBERLAND subsequently joined the royal Party on their return to the Lodge to dinner. The Marquie and Marchioness of ELY, and the Rev. JOHN NIERsWITttf U had also the honour of dining with the Bitto and Qutsx. Their Maszyrirs add tile whole of the Party lett the Lodge about nine o'clock, and returned to their collective residences. CO( RT CII:CULAR. The King gave audiences yesterday to the Hanoverian Ministvr, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl they, and the Earl of Cassilk. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia par look of a dejeune with the Queen, yesterday, at St. James's Plaice. The Duke of Cumberland and Prince Leopold visited her Mak:sty yesterday. Their Majesties entertained the Duke of Cumberland and a seles party at dinner last evenins. The Queen accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, took ao airing yesterday in a carriage. Prince Leopold had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey, at the Treasury. Lord Holland left Holland House yesterday, for St. Anne's Hill. DOVER, MAY 23. The Prince Nicholas EsterbazyCialantha, with a numerous suite, arrived at Wright's Ship Hotel, this day, from Calais, by the Duke of Wellington steam-packet. His Highness appeared in excellent health. After partaking of a sumptuous entertainment, his Highness started for town in a carriage snit four. General Mackenzie came over in the same vessel, and slatted for town, after partaking refreshments at Wright's Hotel. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, 22d May, 101. SATDDIDAY, May 21.-Wind North.-Arrived the Eliza, Woodall, from Smyrna, 45 days, for cadent • the Hannah, -, from Odessa, for orders and Liverpool; the Edgar, Thornton, from Aux Cayes. for orders and Bristol, oat 55 drys : April 9, spoke the barque Ruth, from Jamaica, fur London, ont 17 drys, in lat. 29. 30. N. long. 67. 30. %V.; Aptil 14, spoke the Lois, of Glattgow, out 17 days fmm Jacque]. for Falmouth, in long. 60. 00. W. lat. 32. 50. N.; May 5, spoke the bri,t Sarah, from New Orleans, for Liverpool, out 37 days,' in let. 49. 10. N. lonf. t . 13. 40. W. ; May 16, spoke the schooner Jane, of Plymouth, from St. 511ellarl's, for Portsmouth, out 16 days. in lat. 50. 05. N. long. 7. 00. W.; May 19, 'poke the brig Exeter, Bailey, from London, for Bannula, Lintel hearing E.N.E. 50 miles. Also arrived off tile port and proceeded, ,he Th. rni,tocle, Martens, from Leghorn, for London, out 52days ; aed the Tiber, Candler, from Colutantinopl2, for orders rod ! im a m , oat 58 days.-No „rung*. SUIZDAY, 22 (Wind N.N.W.)-Arrived the Coroltill, Scotland, from Gallipoli, 80 days, for orders; and the Diana, Holmes, from Con. stantinople, for creers ; Hill packet Spey, James, from Rio Janeiro, with mails, sailed from Rio Janeiro 18th March ; also arrived his Ma jesty's packet Pigeon, Lieut. Money, from Jamaica and Calthagena, sailed from Carthagena April 6, Jamaica 16 and from Crooked Island 23.1 t April 6, at Carthagena, English brig Thomas Haynes-18tb, in lat. 17. 56.10ng. 73; 21, passed the brig Retrench, from Jamaica, with troops; 30th. in let. 34. 20. long. 50. spoke the schooner George and Sarah, of and from Halifax, out nin e d a y s f or th e West holies; May 5, in at. 42. 4. long. 42. 40. spoke the brig Morgiana, of and from, Dublin, out 22 days for Barbadoes • 15th, in lat. 46. 11. long. 17. 45. spoke the brig Joseph Fenton, of LCith, 02 days from Rio Janeiro, for Cowes • 19th, in lac. 49. 42. long. 8. 42. passed the ship Minerva, of Bristol, for Trinidad. No sailing,. YAR 70 - 1 U H, MAT 23. The Wynyard, R. Harrison, from Petersburg'', with a cargo of flax and linseed, bound to London, the weather being (Saturday iron ing) very thick drove on Cotton sand, the crew are landed, and the weather being moderate, the ship and cargo m a y be saved ; also, trove on Cotton sand, Satur day morning, the Hercules, Capt. Hop'yolon. foreign ship, with cargo of wheat; the crew are landed, but the ship aid cargo is sunk in the sand. A new ship, and_ her first voyage, and not insured. The Louisa, Stephenson, which I mentioned 19th inst. is oft' the above sand, and is laying on Kissingland beach, where she will land her cargo. NEW CITY THEATRE, MILTON-STREET. • Kean last night appeared at t/ - 7;1 -- itertaining little Theatre as Shah. epsare's Shylock, and experienced a reception enthusiastic in the extreme —a most gratifying tribute to genius and superior talent. Since his performance at Drury. Lane Theatre his health is evidently amended, and his physical powers invigorated ; and though the part of the .area does not call for any particular c exertion, still his acting throughout gave the pleasing proof ° 27er e te al wed powers and addi. Ilona' energy. The size of this Theatre is most favourable to both the actors and audience. Here Kean rosy be seen, heard, and justly admired. We do not know that we ever saw him play .his, his most perfect character, more finely than he did last evening; there was no necessity to make points, or attempts stake, or to strain the voice beyond its proper pitch, and the effect of this sr: it an increased pleasure in vritnessim ; his exertions. Crowded u the Theatre was to inconvenience, still the charm of his acting operated to produce si lence and attention when any otl:cr means would have b.:en in. effeetnaL At tiie cud of the fourth act the audience, impatient to offer another Winne to Mr. Kean, called loudly for him, win he obeyed the summons, and thanked them for the flattering rpm laudation bestowed on his performance. He said he was happy to be nn humble instrument In removing the prejudice Jut had once existed against /Moor Theatres, and to destroy theatrical mono. poly. After complimenting ;be City, he obacrveel, that though the City Theatre did not compete with the patent houses it size, he liopcti it would be allowed they equalled diem in the talent proimetti for their gratification. Mrs. Chapman wes a latly-like and eft'eetive Portia ; and Miss Pineott made a very interesting and irresistible tltitlr.'s clerk. Cooke was a discreet Anima°, and Mr. blunt thy played Graliwoo, we will not say how indifferently. In the afterpiects of Out for a Day and the Bold Dragoon, J. Reeve and Mrs. litas.illiam were droll and clever in the superlative. O'GORMAN MAHON AND MAJOR MACNAMARA. Two very conflicting stetet been publitilted of an affair that took plum between Alajer Mune:mats and O'Cortean klaben on Wcelneatiry lam, in jail-street, fnoix. The Clare Journal rays that O'Gorman 111.1 ion charged Major 111i.mrtnr.ra with uavirg formed a *radon age;reit him. although lie hne 1:11111 a •olcmn r remise to preserve a lariat retitrality. Alter a reretition of this charge ant a iiisx claimer of tali rtifriandly ieeliri; the rmt of d.e Ni jut, o•Orintatt Mahon told him that he vas arleli.g Llitehnod to treachery ; II aye* Alajcr klacitatuartes retertirl some rbuaive erienets, 01;renvo Maher is reprepentce to hare ethJrd him a conteroptilile cnwarel, nt the same time makieg him a very lett beu and retiring. This eeuti o ., of 114 , offelr it sold to be etartnticeted by a gentlemen who acs parent. The Litnerirk I ferald, in it, recount of ,14, interchange or ciriliticx, declares that Major 31reramarn dereetieed O'Gorniar Maher as al, in. famous liar, in tr , ry way unwi nh y tif .I , e at ties of l , entkr ar ; and ecchned that lie nom omit' tifllr him io r.aye any further conrectioh with the county of Clare. NI:1m Mean:lmam has written a lava to the Editor of the Digblits Morning Reoirtev , in r hit it lie ,pree.ounces atatan4tit in the Clare Mai be a tissue of raixeln44l2. Sir F. Buidett's annual dinner was held vesterday at the Crown and Anchor. 31r.3turch read the first hantaill drawn by him. self 24 years sirce, calling on the people of Westminster ?o return Sir Francis. Mr. Tipper, the stationer, and a Burkirghaushite freeholder, spoke with indignation of neglect of that county by the patriotic fund, and on demanding to know what sum had been granted, was silenced by a great uproar. The hea!th of Mr. Thomas Hardy was drank with enthusiasm, and he spoke with feeling of the days when Reform was high treason. Colonel Evans gave " the Folea, and success to their glorious struggles." An Evening Paper of Inst night, well known for its feeble equivocations, reports, on a pretended letter from Berlin, that the Poles bare " faint hopes of success," and this maudlin stuff is copied into the Mooing Chrooick ! If from Warsaw itself, we should say it was written by some old woman, but a letter from Berlin lowering the Polish cause speaks for itself. TERRY A LT'S GEN EA LOG Y.—Thin redoebted personage disclaims his being a native of C 1.,., and will have it th at he i s o f illustrious Roman origin, his n a m e being derived from Terra Alta, which, as he translates. iy means 'Lod too high.' SIR. WALTER SCOTT.—We learn from 8 gentleman who was last week at Abbotsford, that Sir Waiter has almost completed iris romance of Cowed Robert of Peri& Two volumes w. re in types for pages only were then wanting to complete .he .hird and last volume, and the illustrious baronet, with restored health and unabated cheerful. teas, was dictating to his amanuensis in his owu marvellous sorrels,' calms. style, scarcely altering or retouching a single sentence. THE CENERAL E14147.CT10N. 11E3IEERs RETURNED TO THE NEW PARLIAMENT Banf (Ctunty)—John Morrison Esq. Mery (Courty)—Sir H. Etareson, Bari ; Captain Jones. Marlow (Borough)—O. Eati ; I'. P. Williams, Esq. Peebles Vounty)—Sir G. M.mtiomery. STATE OF POLLS. Donegal (County), Second Day. 163 Colonel Canons. - . 13 I - 135 Lord A. Chichester - 11 Sir E. Hayes bit Charles Style . NORTH A‘l PTONSH I R ELEC rioN. NORTHAMPTON, Motiday. 12 o'Cl,ck. The victory of the reformers in this county is now 'formally and le gally completed. It has been gasetted by the anti-reformers themselves. who have decamped, and left the field to their triumphant corquerurs. Amidst the many great and signal triumphs which the reformers hays achieved of late, this triumph in Nerthampto•fshare claims a foremost place. It has been a triumph of principle over in fluence tend iniimidation,—of public duty over private interest,— of honesty over corrupt temptation,—and of virtue over money. The aristocracy bullied, the clergy threatened, exhorted, and did every thing but pray ; and the boroughmnagers generally declared that they had money enough and to .pare for all purposes ; while, on the other hand, the refouncra contented themselves with shouting their war cry of " Reform and the country's gond," and honertly told the freeholders that, with regard to money, they had scarcely enough to defray the necessary and legal expenses of the election. Lord Althorp will be chaired today, and with him Mr. Wentworth Fitrwilliam, as the representative of his father. If he can procure leave of absence front Cambridge, whither the news of the resignation of the anti-reformers has been forwarded to him by express. It is impossible, by descrip. tior, to give you any notion of the appearance of this town. Every scum to it is crowded with refonuen from all parts of the county, who arc hastening to be prerent at the triumph which has been so loudly and so dearly arced; and rejoicings and coogratulations resound throughout the town. NORTHAMPTON TOWN ELECTION. (Prom a Correspondent.) Stale qf the Northampton Scrutiny. Vols. rejected, Ist week. Sir R. Gunning . Mr. Vernon Smith Altiority on the Gross Poll. Fa Mr. Vernon Smith . . . . 146 A letter appeared frolt a nrtgistrate point ingout to a parish officer that there was nu necessity to appear as evidence on a scrutiny for Sir 1.. Gunning. An overseer of the name of Whiting had the Testam.m in his hat d on Thursday, about to take the oath in Court, when z'ir R. Gunning's agent, Mr. Markham, advised him not, and he ref oed to give evidence. This, blr. Humphreys, the assessor, allow:.!, and took the trouble to caution all witnesses that they need not attend. Mr. Humphreys is a decided anti-reformer, as is very obs.renthle by his conduct or, this bench. PEMBROKESHIRE ELECTION. Owen . Oreville - 1700 - 1693 Sham majority - - 75 For there remain of caua of voters, referred to the aasetoor's booth a h io the last twit days— For Greta Ile Owen - 117 - 61 Majority of eases for Greville . 66 which, on an average, will give 46 good votes more for °resale; so From khan' majority of - - 75 Deduct Greville's obstructed votes, with the cor. rapt view of delaying tbc poll so as to preserve Sir John at the head, . - . 46 Will leave a majority of only which will be extinguished on Monday. The most vexatious delays prevail in the booths. Every impediment ad delay are thrown in the way of Air. Grevilles voters, hundreds of whom have been for several days waiting to be polled. It is now deter mined to tender the votes with a few preliminary questions, so as to save delay ; end if the Sheriff or his frippish underlings entertain preposter. ous qteadess, the voter shall leave the booth, for which the Sheriff will be made sersuntable. It will be observed, that a considerable numbtr et son tamidned in arrear on Saturday night. There is but one as. ems employed, and if he fail g et tin g through them In three days after the pelll on Thursday next, the Sheriff will have to answer the conse quences. Both candidates have declared their determination to keep open the poll to the last day. This will present the severest contt seed election in the united kingdom. 29 It is said that an historical statue of King William IV. seated in a triumphal car. chisseled by an eminent sculptor, will be placed on the pediment over the great gate at the entrance to liyd: -pa-k from Piccadilly. The subscriptions in Guernsey for the distressed and starving Irish amount to near 600 L pert of which has been nmhted. In 1822, upwards of 700 L were collected there fora similar purpose. Such deeds do the island much honour. At the conclusion of the Clare election, Mr. Maurice O'Connell was arrested on a magisrrates warrant, and held to bail in the sum of 5001. to keep the peace to Mr. W. R. Mahon and all h:s Majesty's subjects. The police were on the alert to secure Mr. M.bon, but did not succeed. Wm. Wordsworth, Esq. the poet, has been appointed Stamp Distributor for the Carlisle district, in the room of Mr. James. There is no truth in the report of a clerk in the Custom boon having been among the principal winners at Epsom. It was said of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence that he knew but one language; but that be knew better than any other man. REFORM IN THE HI6IILANDS.—The word "reform" is now as prevalent throughout the remotest glen in the Highlands as the " slogan^ was In feudal times. The banner of reform is now to be seen waving in the breeze from the top of an old kiln in the lower ex d of Banrannoch; and. for the farther edification of John II ighlandman, its motto consists of French and English. Paganini, it is said, after having arranged the prices of admission to his Concert, was unable to sleep, in consequence, as he ehought, of having so greatly rtnderelearsred them. The "four boost only which were let upon the occasion, serve at least to show that there was a diversity of opinion on that subject. When Laporte first applied to Paganini for his services, the modest violinist de. maiii,ed 600 guineas per night. M. Laporte's friends must regret ex ceedingly that instead of catering into an arrangement with M. Page.- taint, and appearing to support his absurd pretensions, he did not at once put a stop to all negotiations. The differences which caused the retirement of Mr. Lee from the management of Drury-line Theatre, arose entirely from mat. tete under the deed of partnership between that gentleman and Captain Polhill, and not from any personal misunderstanding between them. When the present lessor of Covent-garden Theatre left the management nine years ago, the salary of no performer exce e d e d 201. per week—that s u m was M r. Harris's maw mem, whilst now, the weinientree (on an average) is more than 201. pa night. Who can wonder, therefore as Reynolds says in hi s " D ramat i c A nn.ia l , " that one incarcerat e d manager. Instead of the " King'. Be-ch," dated his letter, the " STAa Chamber." In the recent life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, his hi* gm .111 r informs us that up to the year 1002 his prices had beta for a tilret. quatier , , 30 i,nriness: for a half.lergth 60 guineas ; and ors who e lingth 120 guineas. In 1802 he raise d the charge for the in-allele sire to 25 guineas, quadrupling it for the whole length. At these rates r e continued to paint till 1806, when he raised his charge for the smallest size to 50 guineas, and so on in proportion. In 1808 he raised his prim to 80 guineas for the imalest size, and 320 for the whole long h • and in 1810 advan ce d t h em to 100 guineas for small heads, and 40 0 guineas for Lill lengiha . At t h ese latter prices he ecntinued to paint for 10 years, and in 1820 made one snore advance, which he never ex. ceded. It is said that shoemakers form the meat numerous class of Operatives in Canton ; the number is estimated at about 26.000. Of weavers there are about 15.000. Of lapidaties there are upwards of 7.000. The carpenters and cabinetmakers are t stimated at le OGO. There are above 18,000 trading bolos of different sizes which pats along the river from Canton to Whampoa. The Tanks, or small boats, in which people live, and which pay an annual lee to the police, are said to be upwards of 50,000. THE LATE EMPEROR. ALEXANDER.—" Tell PA] bred men of your acquaintance, tell we this aneedetts a the limptror of Russia. In the midst of the concert, while the first violin was play. ins, I saw his eye glancing towards ladies at sonic distance tap When the claw of a passage permitted it, he advanced with tfe greatest precaution, but ptrfect ease, at d not the sena/lest sound of triad. .o rah,: a tea-cup from a lady, the wife cf one of 4. aidesidu.c.imp of land Wellington (who had the good sense not toraalst it), returning to pace it on a table."—" Life cad Correspowderws tf Sir 1 hos. Law. (bro." The Prince de Joinville is the third sou of Louis Philippa, and now in his 13th year. lie waste embark on board of the Arienii. ala, at Mantillas., on the 13th inst. for the pierosse of ctinnt:rcing his naval career; but whilst at sea he is to he plac.d. in every respect,"" the same footing a s his br ot h er m id s hi ps . Wh en touching, h ow ever. at any port, he will be allowed, for the time, to re-assume his princely rank, and enjoy the honours attached to it. it is related of his present Majesty's father, George 111. I that he was once much urged to give his consent to a measure, Co the pound that both Mr. Pitt and Mr. lox approved of it ; to which his Majesty replied, " When Mr. Pitt as.d Mr. Fox contasdiet each other, one stop be wrong and one snap be right ; but *hen Mr. Pitt and My. Fox agree In opm.oo, be &sauna that they are both wrong. a ! '