Star. — London, England, 1831-03-02 00:00:00

~~ "~ . i. ~~ ,•~ . PERT Or sr(/. KS AT TWO O'CLOCK. 3 r t.• (', no. 7 51 64 1 ver ('t. 1826, 861 1 1 OM.. for Ace. 7 7 51 9 1 on.: Amot. Jan.lBB9, 161 3to r Ceti., iced. 771 61 7 Ohl Annuitiet 761 Near, 34 r,t f*:. 181 P, 854 61 XlOOO Each. Milt 17 14 31 rer Ct fird 861 511 CI 2500 Ditto 18 18 8!, per Cent. New. 854 5 13 £lOO and £2OO Do. 17 19 FOREIGN STOCKS. Bnialßau, fi.r Account, 37. Danish, for Acct, 57k. Greek, 1825, for Met, 7.6. Russian, for Acct, 8131. Spaniels, 111; for Acct. 1711. Spanish. 1823, for Acct, 131 i. Amsterdam Es change, s'ght, 11.8 540; Hamburgb, 13-7 i. French 5 per Cent, 90f; 3 per CI, 55f 85c. Irish 54 per Ct. 88i1a. OMPANIES. Irish Grand Canal, 73i Forth and Clyde, £625 Lie. & Man.Railway,Clll6 toil 90 Cromford, £45 Guardian, Albion Fire, £75 Alliance, £8 5s County, £4O Bolanes Mines, £lBO Steam Navigation, Ms. £6 Iss ['FISH COMMERCE. Cars—(92g.; .C 9 to XlB. Hton—Butts,2od to 25d; Buenos Ayres (A.) 9d to lOid. Corm--Jam. middling, et 2 14s to E 5 3s; Dem. and Derbies, £2 8s to :24 2s; Mocha, .£3 5s to Jes 101. TEA—Bolles, is Ild to . 2s Od; • . Coogou, mid. 25 2d to 2. 9d ; Hyson, mid. 4s 3d to 4. 6d. BUTTIR—Cork, .24 145 to £4 16s; _ Dutch, £4 10.. Cagan— Cheshire, old, XS 10a to £3 18s ; S Ghisterag to £2 TALLOW— Russia yel. X 2 79 3d ; White, £2 Ts 6d. Ries—Carolina 14a Od to 19s ; Bengal. I:ss 6 d: to 17a 6d. 5u055.....25. 7d per cwt. Smrrnvisco Firs 28 . — Beef, 4s 2d to 4s 81; Mutton, 5. Od to 5s 4d; Veal, 5s Od to 6s Od ; Pork, 4s 6d to Ss 4d. MASK-LANZ, MAMIE 2—Wheat, 803. to 785 . ; Batley, 44s to 48s; Oats, 22 to 32.. OAZETrc AVERACIL Fin 25. Wheat, 75s I d ; Batley, 42s 7d ; Oats, 27. Ild; Beans, 40s 2d. BOROUGH M• SKIM Fas.2B. Kent.. lA, £8 15s to £l4 0.; Fern. ham, Zl5 Os to ‘2O Or. COAL &ORANGE, Fu. 28.--Best Wall's End, 35s Od to 35. 6d; other sorts, 27s Od to 34. 6d. SMITHFIELD HAT MAUMEE, FIB. 23. Hay. £2 Os to £4 10s. Straw. Ll 14s '0 £2 Os. PUBLIC Hank Stock. !Data Stock, 205. Bond!, 4 6 2 London Dock , , £59 10s St. Catherine's. £7B 10s City Gas. £l9O Bank or Scotland, £167 Briti'h Linen, £250 Grand Junction, £243 Leeds, £595 %Tent'', £.19 10s STAPLES OF BEI' COTTON ( Lis)—Georgia, Bowed, tid to 7td ; Sea Island, lid - • • to 206 ; N. Orleans, 61d to Bd. Wool. (Lon.}—Sazony prima, 33 to ss: Austrian prims,2s to 4s; Segovia, 2s od to 2s ad ; South Down, 12 to 15 ; Blanket, 7 to 9. Stag, thrown—Pledmoat White, 275 to 45s ; yellow slut, 240 to 27s ; Modena raw, 14$ to 16$ ; Bengal, 10* 01 to 15s ; China, 13s 6d to 17s. Firs—Riga, X 52; Ant. £5O £65. lAcm— Pigs, £4 10s Od to £4 Ide ; Bars. £6 Si Od to £6 101 Od; Swed:sb, .El 3 to £l3 10s. Correa—XB7 to £BB Os; South Amer. X 72 to £72 10s: LzA2 = Bars, £l3 15. to £l4. Tni—Blotki, £3 1 Ss. Such R—Lunips large, £3 3s Od to £3 4s 0.3; Powder, fine, £3 16. to £4 61 04 ; Bengal, £1 2s Od to t 1 4o ; Jamaica. fine, £2 165 to £3 Tobacco—Maryland, 30 to Sid; Virginia, 5 to 6 ; Cuba, 13 to 18 08.—Flor. £1 Is Od half chest ; Linseed, #2 Os Od prr cwt ; Pale Rape, , C 2 10s. Bunny-13rdcaux, 3s to as 6d. Rust—Jam. (14) 2s 3d to 2s ; _ _ Dem (10 ti 20) 29 to 2, 94. Wittier, 103 ad to 119. G 1241911, its 64 to 2s 9d. Post—flood, £35 to £4O. Sums—Good, ,e 25 to £4O. NADvo..-1.0o: P. Xs° to ,e4O. OMs o'Crocc—Barometer,29-70; Thermometer, 36. Wind W.— Weather, cloudy. THE EVENING sfAn. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. We sincerely congratulate the nation on the develope ment of the Reforming Plans of Ministers. It is the triumph of public virtue, and of those,exertions which have been made, during the last forty years. Its highest praise is the bitterness with which it is impugned, by all those who have fattened, and continuo to hope still further to fatten, by the cajolery of the people, by the management of the public finances, and the patronage of the State. We sat under the gallery, amid those nobles whose ascendancy depends on the conservation of the system of mock representation, and their groans and exclamations at every new announcement of the Government Orator, were the highest compliments which the plan of ministers could receive; and ought to act as an inducement to Reformers, of all grades, to co operate, with heart and hand, to aid the government in car rying it through. It may not go all the lengths proposed by theory ; but it contains so much good, that our only fear is, that it is too good to be carried. Let it, however, be con aidered that extremes beget extremes ; and that the grossness of abuses has given rise to popular demands scarcely hoped to be realized ; and, therefore, that wisdom lies probably in the golden mean which Ministers have adopted. In the first place, SIXTY of those nefarious sinks of cor ruption—the rotten boroughs—are to be extinguished, by which the country gets rid, at a stroke, of 119 vultures, preying on the vitals of the state and people. In the next place, we diminish the power of 47 others of the same class of close boroughs; while the extension of the suffrage will render the elected 47, at least innoxious. Then the right of voting in towns universally is not, as at present, to lie in those agents of corruption—the burgesses and new-made freemen (who are only to have a life interest); but in the householders, renting to the amount of ten pounds per annum. In counties, also, the right of voting is to be extended to copyholders of ten pounds per annum, and to leaseholders of twenty-one years in England, and nineteen years in Scotland, granted above two years, on property at fifty pounds per annum. All this is popular, and it adds tr Ala ♦ MILLION to the present number of constituents. It is then proposed to confer TWO Members on seven large towns, and olvE on twenty secondary towns, at present unrepresented. Also, to enable four divisions of the Me tropolis, on the north side of the Thames, to return each two Members ; and the Lambeth division, on the south side, to return the other two. Above all, as a security to the landed interest, it is intend ed to confer on 27 Counties, of the largest population,ltwo additional Members each, from two districts of the Counties, assigned by a commission of the Privy Council ; and to give to each Riding of YORKSHIRE the power of returning two Members. Nor is this the whole extent of the concession : for by limiting the right of voting to residents, and cutting of those curses of fair election—the out-votes, it is intended to con chide all elections in towns in two days, and in counties in those days ; and to simplify rights, by lists prepared in the manner of Jury-Lists, and in counties by taking the votes in the rear ective hundreds. This system is to be extended throughout all the United Kingdom. Scotland will gain five additional Representatives, Ireland three, and Wales one. But the whole number will be reduced from 658 to 596--quite enough for practical deliberation. The only part of the plan not developed, Which We think slight to have bees regarded, ie the present unconstitutional and UPIII ped DURATION. On this, Ministers do not pledge) themselves to move; bet leave it for further consideration, and to any other parties. On the subject of the BALLOT—the touchstone With many 'of the perfection of every system of election—they also forbear to move ; and, as bird JOHN RUSSELL argued at length against it, we may infer that they are opposed to it. The objection which his Lordship took to irresponsible voters, he should recollect, applies with equal force to Grand and Petit Juries, whose irresponsibility is the best recom mendation of the Jury System. Beneath, we have subjoined the lists which are necessary to the due understanding of the whole ; and we also refer to the speech. We may add, that his Lordship spoke in the first person plural, as the avowed organ of an unanimous Cabinet ; and that he enlarged with emphasis on the appro bation which the plan had received from the KING. His Lordship spoke, with grace and eloquence, for nearly two hours and a half ; and was listened to with attention, by the fullest House of Commons ever assembled. His peroration was particularly splendid, and his exordium ingenious. No question for years has engaged a more intense interest. The approaches to the House were crowded, and the avenues and passes choked with anxious enquirers. It now remains for the people to assemble everywhere, and do their duty ; which duty, in our opinion, is to support the Ministers in carrying their plan into a law. They will thereby at the next, and we trust early election, have the first opportunity which they ever enjoyed, of electing a Par liament ! BOROUGHS DISFRANCHISED. The followingtis a list of the franchise : Aldbnrough (York) Aldborough (Suffolk) Appleby Bedwin Beerahton Bishop's Castle Bletchingley Boroughbridge (Great laughter) Bossiney Brackley Bramber Buckingham CalWigton Cainelford which it is proposed to dim. lilalmesbury Dl idhurst Milborne Port Minehcad Newport (Cornwall) Newton (Isle Newton (Isle of Wight) Okehempton Orford Petersfield Plympton Queenborough Reigate Romney St. Newe's St.. Michael's (Cornwall) &hash Old Sarum Seaforth Castle Rising Corte Castle Donwieh Rye Fowey Hatton Haslemere Heyde' Hey tesbirty Higham Ferrets Hindon Whetter East Looe West Looe Lostwithiel Ludgenhall Stcyning Stockbridge' Tregony Wareham IVendover Wcobly Whitchurch Winchebea Woodstock Wootton Basset Yarmouth—(6o.) 3oruughs which will be allowed to The following is the list of the return one Member of Parliament Ammham lielston Rye Arundel Honiton St. Germaine Ashhurton Huntingdon St. Ives Bewdley Hythe Sandwich Bodmin Launceston ' 1 Sudbury Bridport Leominster Shaftesbury Chippenham Liskeard Tamworth Clitheroe Lyme Regis Thetford Cockennouth Lymington Think Dorchester Maldon Tutness 1 Downtun Dlar!borough Truro Droitwich Marlow Wallingford 'treason Morpeth Westbury Grimsby Nonhallerton Wilton East Grinstead Penryn Wycombe Guildford Richmond (47.) The following are the names of the seven towns, each of which, it is proposed, should send two Members to Parliament : Manchester and Salford Birmingham and Ashton Leeds Greenwich, Deptford, and Wool wich The following are the names of posed, shall send one Member to Ildghton Blackburn. Wolverhampton Macclesfield bath Shields and Westoe each : Wolverhampton, Bllaton, and Sedgeley Sheffield Sunderland and the Wearmoutha towns, csch of which, it is pro. Bolton Stockport Dudley Tynemouth and North Shields Cheltenham Warrington Huddersfield Bradford Frome Wakefield Kiddermhsater.—{2o.) Whitehaven, Workington, Bar rington The following counties are to send two additional Biemben : Chester Wilts Derby Warwick Word Durham Cumberland Sussex Gloucester Northampton Nottingham Lancaster Cornwall Surrey Norfolk Devon Northumberland Somerset Esse: Leicester Suffolk Kent Southampton Yorkshire Lincoln Worcester. The Isle of Wight is to return one. The letter of our City Correspondent shewa that the great Constitutional Campaign, thus gloriously opened yesterday,by that Hereditary Champion of all England, Lord Jou RUSSELL, is viewed sensitively in the money market,by those who are not weighing the plan proposed, by its abstract merit, as to its extension of popular power, but who are weighing the contingencies which may occur on its not passing into law. The monied interest view certain results more clearly, than even those who assume to themselves the character of impartial deliberation. The confiding quiescence of a stockholder depends on the security of the Government, which may be con sidered the holder of his purse. The national debt has been thought a grand secret of governing in this country; and therefore it is, that those Administrations who have tried the most severe experiments on the vital interests of the people of England, have contrived, by Saving Banks, Government Annuities, Friendly Societies, and all the various branches of legislation, tending to urge investitures in the public securities, to intertwist,—ifsuchla bold metaphor may be allowed,—the nerves of so many of the good people of this country,among the complicated wheel work of national finance. This we say has been thought by thePt 'yrs and ROBES of former times, a grand security for the permanence of the extrava gant and corrupt system they were supporting; and this even was strongly boasted of in parliament yesterday, as a kind of safety valve, to which still the corruptionists—for by no other terms would we designate the anti-reformers—look with satisfaction, for the preservation of the fire balloon in which they wish to float. But cunning often contrives its present security by its future destruction ; and such will prove to be the case on this occasion. As long u the taxes could be filched from the people, to discharge the interest of the debt, without the amount being noticed, so far, was there safety in their plan. But when the amount to be obtained sets at defiance all mantra vre—and when it becomes not the surplus penny, but the half of his crust that the labourer has to relinquish—it is found that he is not likely to part with it, without having some questions to ask, and some authority to exercise, as to its disposal. This, therefore, forces the monied interest to see, that their only security now consists in satisfying the wanes, who, sooner or later, govern all states, by admitting them to the reasonable privilege they have been forced w perceive, is essential to their interests. If we reason correctly, therefore, the Stockholder, and all who have been artificially made interested in the public finances, must now see his real safety in supporting that re form, which will reader taxation rationally receivable from the pockets of the payers ; and enforce, at the same time, that economy which may insure their pockets to be ade quately supplied. The sagacious man thus interested in the State Finance— the Stockholder, mediate or intermediate—will, according to our view, ponder with solicitude, on the probable fate of this brave attempt of a virtuous Administration ; and if such a misfortune should occur as its failure, they will, if we have any knowledge of human prudence, run to the mar ket, and endeavour to get realized that species of property, which, from that moment, will be precarious of existence, if not certainly evanescent. By the Dutch and Hamburgh mails this morning, we have the Prussian State Gazette of the 22d Feb. which contains a variety of exparte statements and letters, giving vague accounts of the advance of the Russians, and the movements of the Poles. There is no possibility of forming any true estimate of the Russian forces, that are said to have entered Poland in various quarters. We have endeavoured to trace ' out their positions, and places of alleged entry, on the map; and find the statements very discrepant and unintelligible. These accounts represent the majority of the invading forces as Cossacks. Among many passages in these papers, evi dently written to dishearten the patriots, by representing the apathy of the citizens of Warsaw, we find one at variance with such representations—it is, that they have unpaved the City, preparatory to barricading it. We subjoin a few ex tracts which are of a more cheering description : BERLIN, Feb. 17.—The expulsion of the Russians from Sieldce, which is reported by the Warsaw journals, is said to have been effected under the direction of General Citi.o- PICK I, who is at the head of the staff. According to the accounts received, several days ago, from the Russian head quarters, the army is collecting abo ut Lamega and Nur.— The inhabitants of those parts made no resistance. The Russian General-in-Chief thought, at that time, that there would be no Important battle in leas than 10 or 12 days. HAMB u no, Feb. 22.—A letter from Warsaw by the last mail, says—" News is this moment received, that General Skrzinecki has surprised a Russian camp, and taken eight cannon, two standards, a quantity of arms, ammunition, and baggage." TimTIII HAGUE, Feb. 22.—Last night couriers arrived from London, Paris, Maestricht, and also from the army. BREDA, Feb. 23.—We have received news, that the King intends next week to visit the army, and the fortresses, beginning with Nimeguen. Path Papers of Monday are this day received by express; but their contents are anticipated, so far as regards the Russian and Polish hostilities, by the preceding extracts.— In addition to what we had previously stated with respect to Italy, we find that Austria is serious in commencing hostilities. Private letters from Antwerp confirm the report, that the King of ROLLA); D had determined again to blockade the Scheldt. The National Paris paper affirms, that Lord Poxsow ay had instructions to leave Brussels, on the ap pointment of SUBLET de CHOLTER as Regent. This day, the KING held a Levee at St. James's Palace; after which there was a Privy Council, when the Re corder's Report of the criminals now under sentence of death in Newgate was laid before bis MAJESTY. CITY. ONE O'CLOCK. The new measures of Reform proposed by Ministers in the House last night,have caused very great excitement in the City this morning; and have had a material effect on the Funds. The Stock Exchange was fully attended, when a great deal of bustle and confusion took place. Consols, which had improved yesterday to 76f, 77 for the Account, opened at 76i, which price lasted but a short time, and they soon receded to 75;, a fall of one per cent. ; by which it is evident that it is apprehended, that the measure will not pass the House of Lords. CITY,• TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have somewhat improved at present, and are done at 76; to f. Charlestown papers are received at the North and South American Coffee-house to the 27th January, but they are void of interest. By the Dutcb mail papers have been received to Satur day. The Dutch Funds have fallen 2 per cent. owing to the news from Italy, and the report there of a war. Gen. Chasse has notified that all defensive preparations at Antwerp, on the part of the Belgians have ceased, by orders from Brussels. CITY, THRICE O'CLOCK. Consols which were in the early part of the morning at 75j for the account, are at present 76}. The report of the French rentes having come considerably lower is not true ; the 3 per cent. rents are 55-85, the 5 per cents. 90. Great anxiety prevails for this evening's debates, by which the strength of the opposition will be ascertained. In the Foreign Market nothing doing. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MA= Alarm Tan DH :—Do 1 1 ; Waterford. 1 ; Hambergll, 1 ; olland, Dent, Hazen I.—Arrived tbo Nestor. Yale, from en. John's, New Brunewict. and Minerva, Quick, from St. Anders. Kumasi, Hamm I.—Arrived' the W. G. Antenna, Wifillan, from the Cape of Goad Hope. _ r, Manor I.—Arrived the Cornet, Lowanote, from & Masers. — FaciaMies, Pam IS.—Arrived the Nevado. Boner, ken Si. Do. ming° ; and the Nam, Johns, from ; ako the Rapid, Sea. man. from Ander°, leaky, The Sir George Murray, WM.. trees St St. Jelm'e, N. B. arrived at Milford, with loss of rudder, bulwarks, and deck lied. Unarms, Pim as.—Arrived the Reed. Madill, from Lisbon ; the Aron, teem Masseilles j and the Feinviek, Keane& from Si. John's, New aresswiels ; the lfooli>us. Jamb. Ikea Liverpool, Nevi Seeds ; the Alice. Mal, teemVlr la; the experise Fortnum, from Charleston ; the Jib Rem Iliewsne, Rem Dena ; the Lantel„ Dobson, from the Havanessmil the Raider, Camema, Brussels Papers to the 28th Army, contain an ac count of the Bitting of the National Congress, of 25th February, when M. Surlet de Chokier was installed Regent f Belgium, with the most enthusiastic acclamations. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Ti aelre.--The ennionely-expected motion of Lorpcli:polhen: Rthuessell:umie, forward last night, fora Reform in Parliament. Ministers, through his pro Lord p :E se l d p, is d an o n ef ot ecti pla ‘ y e w o i n th e. th t i l t pen fee ws lings e po ll:te m() we shall say a few words t the first is the magnitude of the present House. This 1 , great grievance, and more especially as most members now choose u. show tbetr dexterity insmaking ; indeed, a seat in Parliament sp r i rgi from n Rentalcathiugpael..ty for Hww wwer lw.it h t e lo di n m ,b it ut u see tie tr in t r o be int al wf m w es um t b n e e n ceza we ty taia , ;, ,. It appears to us that the present members for rotten boroughs shoal,' leave the House, as a matter of form, whilst their existence is dis cuss ,,y In any case, if he dissolution be found necessary, they will rot ah k, their appearance in the house again, as none but madmen would rqu. chase their seats; and the now infamous and marked-out nomin. Peers, and other opulent persons, would be justly handed over to can. dign punishment, or popular indignation, if they should dare to °tu tu & themselves into Parliament. Speaking in general terms, we app,„,, of the present plan most sincerely. We do not press all others la, it as we do; but we advise the country most strenuously to sq l „,,, :t. The crew of a stranded ship do nos examine too minutely the autri, ' the vessel which is to take them off the wretched island on which the. are cast, to a place of plenty and safety. No one can deny but thi. whatever is in the bill is good : to dispute whether parts might not Is! better , better, is to afford the adversaries of all reform the handle they wo u ld wish. To the House we should say, " Pass it pass it." To th e p ea . pie, " Urge in every way the passing of the bill : all for it, pr ess 1 ., forward." Let the public cast their eyes over the fiat of rotten boroughs as contained in Lord John Russell's speech. Their mock represents. tives will not much longer insult the common sense of all mankind, by retaining seats in a British House of Commons, to pass laws which are to bind the men of England. CHILONICLE.—The people are now in possession of the Reform ter. templated by Ministers. It is extensive, and must, we think, obtoir for them, throughout the country, the reputation of a sincere desire t. improve the national institutions. We hail this Reform as an imnsers, benefit to the nation ; and we are greatly mistaken if it hr not gene. rally viewed in that light. The Plan, which is said to be Earl Grey's, evinces a disposition to trust to the support of such a proportion ere the population, as cannot possibly be influenced by the usual means of corruption. Lord John Russell's calculation is, that five hundred thousand persons, connected with the property of the country, will, by the measure, be added to the constituency. For Sec:. land. which has hitherto been as close as a rotten Borough, a constituency of 00,000 is an immense improvement on 3,000. mi n k. tors are sure of the support of all that is respectable in the nation. W e defy the interested opponents of the measure to appeal to a single preju. dice, which shall rally round them one independent individual. Honesty is often the best policy, and we arc confident it will prove to be so in this case. Had ministers proposed some paltry reform, merely skinning over the present corrupt system, they would have been abandoned by the people, the opposition would have supplanted them, and a frightful struggle might have taken place between the people and their sucevsson. But by rallying round them all that Is respectable in the country, they may set all corrupt interest, at defiance. They must be bold men, indeed, who would think of attempting to withstand the government, backed by the nation, in times like these in which we live. As far as we are able to learn, the plan of ministers has considerably exceeded expectation. It has given great joy to the most honourable and disinterested of their adhereats in the house. On the other hand, Sir Robert Peel and hi , adherents seemed to be struck by the announcement of the plan with absolute dismay. We hold it to be the bounden duty of all reformers, whatever may be their particular notions respecting the nature of r.fonr. which would most benefit the nation, to ask themselves this simple qua. don—Will not the plan of ministers bean immense Improvement of out institutions, and can they possibly hope to obtain so greats benefit inn ) other way than by giving their most strenuous support to ministers at this conjuncture? Ministers have done their duty ; let the people do theirs. The Englishman, who, at a moment which is to determine whether his country shall be rescued from the thraldom under which it has so long suf. fered, hesitates to snake one grand exertion for this paramount object. deserves to be driven, with ignominy, from the society of all respectable men. Even the corrupt tool of Borough-owners, who on ordinary occa sions might have had little scruple to sell himself, will, we should think. hesitate to commit the damning sin of contributing to a result that may plunge the country into difficulties which we dread even to think of.— Should it be necessary to dissolve Parliament, even the potwallopers of the Boroughs, which it is proposed to disfran chise, will be ashamed to send to Parliament Representatives hostile to Reform. A dreadful responsibility attaches to those who may, for interested purposes, array themselves against the King's Government and the nation at a conjure. ture like the present. POST—The momentous question of Parliamentary Reform was last night brought forward in the House of Commons. The debate was, of course, most interesting, the subject being of more vital importance to the country, than any legislative deliberation which hu taken place since the Convention of 1818. We are in possession of Lord John Russell's statement, and we do not hesitate to say that the matters it embraces are, practically, of as revolutionary a character as those upon which that famous Convention decided. At that time a necessity arose, and the Legislative Bodies were forced upon a Legislative Revolution—at present a necessity is presumed. This pre sumption hu its foundation either in base political cowardice, or in deep designs to which we shall not venture to give a name; but, acting upon it, a measure is presented by the Government to the House of Commons, which tramples upon the rights and privileges of property —shatters at one sudden blow institutions that have subsisted for cen. min and around which innumerable interests have grown and pot. pencil -utterly changes and subverts the established rules upon which the conduct, and even the character, of the people has been framed, and thrusts upon us a revolutionary theory, absolutely alien to all our practices and habits. We ask any reasonable man to say, what security ire thinks he would hare for the duration of any establishmen in this ca. Lion, were such a scheme to become the law of the land ? We grant the plausibility of much that has been stated—we know the cunning with which the statement is framed to meet the taste of the "march-of-in. tam" class, whose little learning is so dangerous as to make than suppose, the great political machine may be taken to pieces, and put together again, like the parts of a steam-engine; and who knows rot that when such a torrent of innovation is once set in motion, no human saguray can foresee the point of destruction at which it will stop. We can see that many will think they find reasonableness in the plan " upon paper," but we can tell such persons, that were the plan de veloped by Lord John Russell the best theo ry for just representation that could be devised, it is one utterly impracticable in its details. Let those who know any thing about county chalets% and the tricks, shifts, and difficulties which belong to them, even when the cleverest profes sional assistance, and the personal superintendence of those most intr rested, are given to them, consider how a poll is to be taken in all the hundreds of a county at once! The idea is absurd. There is a certain calmness and even feebleness in Lord John Russell's manner, which takes away from what he says, me astounding effect that the same announcements from a more energetic person would have; but the more they are thought upon the more determinedly and darkly revolutionary do they appear. He spoke as if the public mind were made up for change, as if a desperate people were knocking at the door of the HOMO, commanding its Members to destroy the insti. rations in virtue of which they sat there; but this is but the device or the delusion of a revolutionary mind. We deny that the people are so disposed, and we trust that a very little time will thew that the present Government malign and traduce the people of England when they represent them as weary of, and disgusted with, the institutions, under which they and their forefathers have risen to such a pre-eminent rank among the people of En We feel convinadtbat the present Ministry cannot stand as the chant pions of doctrines so revolutionary, and disfranchisement's° important they know selves that they cannot ; and, finding their incapacity for Government to be such that they could not retain office, they have been driven to the dreadful expedient of flinging such a firebrand as this revolutionary MUM into the arena of public affairs, in order that their successor, may be seared, or scorched, in their efforts to pure the country, upon the princi a res of the Constitution as it now is. Prince George of Cumberland, attended by the Earl of Errol and Sir George Quentin, coursed yesterday in Hamp ton Court and its neighbourhood. The Spanish Minister bad an interview yesterday with Viscount Palmerston, at the Foreign Office. Viscount Palmerston had an interview yesterday with Ear! Grey, at the Treasury. The Duke of Wellington arrived in town yesterday front his seat at Strathfieldsay; his Grace had a dinner party in the evening, at Apsley House. A report was in circulation yesterday, that General Bout mont, accompanied by the Duke of Bordeaux, left London yesterday morning for Madrid, to take the command of the Spanish army. We know not what authority the report is entitled to, but it was believed in a respectable quarter.— Chronick. We are becoming more and more entangled with the Belgic question. The different ambassadors here (with the exception of Prince Talleyrand, who refused to sign the protocol) have invited France to join England in blocked ng all the Belgian ports, if Maastricht be not immediately cleared of every obstacle to a free intercourse with Hollaud. The obstinacy of Belgium may lead this Government to measures, the consequences of which we dread to anticipate.—/hid. A Courier arrived yesterday at the Austrian Ambassador's, bringing information that Austria has determined to exert herself to the utmost to put down the Italian Revolutions.— Dup.—Yesterday, at his residence in ILIDOVIIt4tISe t . Hanover square, John Fenton Cawthorn', Esq. 111. P. for Lancashire. ie h to It re to t• to re n. t: ty le it P . th te is to to to Ig !d 0, ?t, 'or ' R i 1 ; I 1 / 4 ; II