Star. — London, England, 1831-07-26 00:00:00

LON 1)0N. TUESDATSFLY '26. ()NI O'CLOCK Tan Der.—Dannister, 30.10. Ther mometer, 711. Wind B. Weather, fair, with clouds. Either the Prussian Gazettes falsify as usual, or the Samogitians and Lithuanians have not re sponded, as was expected, to the call of their country. Probably, too, every disposable man was sent out of Russia to protect these frontier provinces ; and we ourselves know that the ships at Cronstadt were unmanned to send sailors to serve as soldiers. Owing, however, to some adverse causes, the corps of GIELG t: to seems to have been cliik - etl to seek refuge within the Prussian fron tiers, and the accounts say that he was there vs•tssinated by a Pole. What has become of Ct: itA zNowsx r; who had advanced near Wilna, (it es not appear ; but instead of TOLSTOI being shut as we were led to believe, inWilna, he is reported to have advanced to Augustowa, and to be progress ing southward, on the right flanks of the main Polish army on the Narew. If these Prussian accounts are to be relied on, the advance of the Poles towards the remnant of the Russian army, •r ho had not crossed the Vistula, had obliged them to concentrate at Lipno, about ten miles from the Vistula, and midway between Pluck and the Prus •:iau Frontier. We hourly, therefore, expect to hear of a battle, and the Polish cause, at this risis, stands in need of a victory. When a party of Ministers of State replied to Whiston that no government could stand a week under a system of Truth, and when Barnave told Marie Antoinette that good faith was the basis of popularity, the one gave instruction to People, and the other to Sovereigns. Only yesterday we we; e congratulating Europe on the pleasing este- Hishment of LEOPOLD in Belgium ; but we little ~ : lspeeted that he and his friends had entered into si crt t conditions to obtain the consent of France, to I...nich conditions no Belgian can or will con ',via. if truth and good faith had prevailed, the Belgians ought to have known that such a con dition was annexed to the accession of LEO- PuLD. For, be it known, these fortresses are the teeth, the bulwarks, the proud ramparts of 13eI L :itnit ; and to surrender them, or destroy them, ould be viewed by every Belgian as the blackest t•cason to the country. And if this had not be e n felt—why was it concealed till LEOPOLD was installed ! Whiston and Barnave, how wise— '.'rinces and Statesmen, how foolish and how irked ! What mischiefs and what bloodshed ini:st result from such shallow craft ! It really %%zis so contemptible, that we thought yesterday tl,at Louis had made the assertion as a clap-trap; but Lord ALTHORP ingenuously confirmed the hole in a statement last night in parliament. The French King seized on every point calculated to smoothen the three days, and hence the notice of the ticstrtietion of these fortresses, which, from LEOPOLD and LEBEAU'S secrecy, his cabinet must have been aware was not intended to be developed jest fit this lime. He also gave a flourish about Lisbon, which deceived us, as it will all Europe. Lord P.iot Lits.i ox , however, in the Commons last night, stated that this mighty affair amounted only to the French fleet has ing passed the forts into the harbour of Lisbon, and obtained such concessions as were ob tained by a couple of British frigates. The reading anplied that the tri-coloured flag had obtained such 'sceudancy ai Lisbon, that Portuguese deliverance was at hand, and really we imagined that Louis Pat ti r E. bad turned over a new leaf. We are sorry, therefore, that Nilo uzz. has been enabled so easily to reconcile himself, and perpetuate his odious ty ranny on the constitutionalists, the allies of Britain. Private advices are just received, via Paris, state tLat the French squadron has left the Tagus, taking them the Portuguese men-of-war, to the num ber five or six, and remain with them outside the bar. These ships are to be detained as se curity, until the money demanded by the French admiral, ROVSSIN, be paid, amounting to upwards of thirty thousand pounds; and likewise to sur render the persons of the two insulted French sub jects uninjured. Mu; var., we learn was every where endeavouring to procure the money, but hitherto without success. It now appears that none of the French troops landed to take possession of any of the forts. The squadron passed them, regardless of their firing, and deliberately took pos session of Micarn.'s naval force. In the HOUSE of LORDS, the Bishop of BATH and WELLS presented a petition against the Beer Bill, and expressed confidence that the part which permitted the beer to be drank on the premises would be repealed. He omitted however to ex plain what greater mischiefs arise from drinking on the premises in a beer-shop, than in a public house. The LORD CHANCILLOR stated, how ever, that the Bill had not yet been fairly tried; hut that somo regulations were proposed by a pending Bill. Lord BEx LEY then defended the beer shops, as the means by which the public had gained the whole of the remitted duty, and even two millions more. But we observe, that in all these discussions, no notice is taken of the small capitals of industrious people vested in these establishments, in full confidence in the stability of an Act of Par liament. If destroyed or rendered less popular or beneficial by other Acts, the alteration would be a direct robbery on those who have adventured their last stake in the establishments ; and the act that shuts them up, or that so alters them as to render them profitless, ought to direct a million to be distributed as indemnity to the parties. This alone would be political justice, and such a recom tnendation ought to accompany all the canting which has been put forward on the subject. In the Commons, Mr. HUNT presented peti tions against the Corn Laws, which led to obser vations pro and con, during which Mr. HUNT pro tested against the grant to the Qum; from the pockets of the poor as well as rich. He then pre sented petitions for universal suffrage, and against the six Acts. Mr. LEADER presented a petition from kelp burners in Ireland, who had lost £lBO,OOO by the sadden reduction of the duty ou barllla. Col. TOR RENS spoke of emigration as means of enabling the monopolists of Ireland to maintain their posi tion and give employment to capital. Mr. GR A TTA N protested against the delusion of emigration, and insisted on the necessity of poor laws. Mr. O'Cos Irma. referring to Colonel TORRENII, said Ireland did not want treatises on political economy, because the evils of Ireland arose from absenteeism, eighteen out of twenty land proprietors living out of the country. No country could stand against such • drain. Not only the parliament but the public boards were done away, and Ireland has no privilege, but that of send ing her wealth to England. He then enlarged most pathetically on the Newtownbarry massacre ; and re lated, as he said, on the authority of men of undoubt ed veracity,that the grand jury of Carlow had drank as a toast, " Our feet on the necks of the papists," and had also drank to " the Yeomanry ofNewtown bary" ! Ought (said he) Mr. Irving, the nephew of Lord Farnham, of whom Graham was the agent, to have been on the grand jury in such a case. He then enforced the absolute necessity of chang ing the magistracy. Mr. CRAMPTON maintained that the West was improving, and that no case in regard to the pro cessions could be made out against the Yeomanry. Sir R. BATESON stated that 50,000 of the wealthiest, most industrious, and most intelligent peasantry of Ulster, had within a few years volun tarily emigrated ! No Minister in reply to Mr. O'Cox KELL explained what is proposed relative to the Grand Jury—whether it is intended to attsint, or to proceed by appealing Graham and his associates ? The Marquis of CnAnDOS enquired about some passages in the French speech, and replies were given by Lords ALTHORP and PALMERSTON, re ferred to in another article. In a Committee of Supply, the expenses of fo reign consuls, the number, mode of remuneration, &c. was objected ; but 112,0001. were voted, being, as Lord PALMERSTON stated, 10 or 12,000 less than in former years. Various other grants were made, and on that for Newfoundland, Mr. Etostisox made some pertinent remarks on the neglect of that Colony, which were opposed by Lord How lex and others. On a proposal to grant the enormous sum of 16,1821. to the Society for propagating the Gos pel, a sharp debate took place, and a division, 27 for only 8,0001. proposed by Mr. HUNT, and 165 in its favour. After various other votes, the additional sum of £260,000 was demanded for the Ridesux Canal in Canada, for which Mr. RICE said more than a million had been already expended by the late Go vernment, which without this addition to finish would be lost. The affair drew forth many severe comments. Sir.). WILLIAMS described it as a scandalous job; and Colonel Evans objected, because we could not long retain the Colony. It was, how ever, voted without division, which Mr. HUNT proposed, but none seconded him. Lord ALTRUIST then proposed the grant of a million of exchequer bills to the commissioners of public works in Great Britain, in the hope of em ' ploying the people without altering the poor laws. It led to some observations, but, as presenting some indirect relief, was assented to. The Irish Lord Lieutenant's bill was read a second time; and as affording the means of eject ing the present Irish magistracy, and introducing a set, who, however chosen, cannot be worse, its progress is viewed with pleasure, founded on hope No comment of ours on the ill-timed equivoca- , tions at Wexford can be necessary—our readers will make it for themselves. Gross as was the Manchester affair, this is at least as bad, if not more insulting. No course of redress seems left to the families, but by the writ of APPYA L OF MURDER, by the nearest of kin, the ancient legal remedy, and not now encumbered with the super stitious wager of battle. We presume this is the re medy proposed by Mr.CosTELLoE; and being in his contemplation, he of course withdrew the witnesses, not choosing to be a party to what was passing. —Plenary justice in a case like this would prove to the people of Ireland, the important point, that they might rely on the protection of the law ; and, thank GOD, the present Ministers are not the same description of men as the Ministers of 1819. We feel therefore assured that Government will not abandon a prosecution of this nature, and it will aid the sufferers in proceeding with the APPEAL, (or ATTAINT, as our Printer made it in a late Ar ticle), as a tribute due at once to the laws and to the feelings of both countries. A PAIR TRIAL will appease the living and the dead ! We yesterday inserted a copy of LORD Baotran m's Bill. It is a step towards improve ment ; for while the 70 Commissioners existed, there could be no change in the infamous bankrupt laws, which have never had any effect, if any ob ject, but the INCREASE AND SECURITY OP LEGAL PLUNDER. These harpies, therefore, were the body-guard of the system, and they raised a frightful uproar if any one alleged that a ma jority of creditors could better arrange with a debtor without their aid. Hence, in all com mittees for revising the bankrupt laws, they took care to form the acting majority; and any knave had only to remark to a witness— " but you would thereby diminish the number of Bankruptcies ;" and the gang then commenced a terrible howl! Lord BROUGHAM, therefore, has taken the bull by the horns ; and when we are fairly rid of these useleu and mischievous Com missioners, and their fees, we may calculate on being able to place the whole system on a footing which will serve creditors, and not render insol vency a primary means of enriching the law. ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off yesterday at 83 hto for the Account, opened at 83 1, at which price they are at present, alternately buyers and sellers. In the Foreign Market nothing doing. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have been fluctuating during the morn ing from 831 to 83i. At present they are 83j sellers for the Account. In the Foreign Market, nothing doing op to the present hour. THREE O'CLOCK. STOCK Excaratoz.--Bank Stock, 291) 2. Three per Cent. Red. 83) 4. Three Ter Cent. Console, 83; e. Three and • Half per Cent. mit. 911. Three and a Half per Cent. Red. 914 1. Three and a Half per Ct. New, 911 ; 1. Four per Ct. 1446, 100; 991. Long Annuities, Jan. 1360, 17; 1. Annuities, Oct. 1859, 17 13.16. Annuities, Jan. 1860, 16; 17.161. India Stock, • do. Bonds, 1 2 preen; Old Annuities, —. ZloooExclequer Bills, 12 14; £5OO ditto, --; £lOO and £2OO ditto. —. Consols for Acct, 83 ) The scheme of a London University was first suggested by DEFOE, and revived with too little knowledge of the world by a speculating modern poet. It was a mistake, for London is not a acite for fagging studies, while, owing to endowments, education is cheaper at Oxford and Cambridge— (board and education about 1001. or 1101.) than it can be made in any unendowed establishment. A popular university might succeed, but not one which affects monkish learning without monkish estates, support, and privileges. By popular, we mean one in which living languages should be adopted, in place of the dead ones—truth preferred to mere routine precedent and authority—and pro fessors chosen from the active world, and not from among men disciplined into the prejudices of other Universities. This would be a true London Uni versity, and such a one as the London public still desire, and would encourage. But to organize it requires an original mind, and several years zealous perseverance. As the objects were incon sistent with modern manners, or with the society of a metropolis, which seeks science for the graces, and not the rust of life, the failure was probable; but it would have been considered illi beral and ill-natured to say this, till it seems to be rendered too certain. The building, the museum, &c. may, however, still be useful; but to succeed, the parties must descend front their stilts, and con descend, with the humility of real wisdom, to be POPULAR—or these can be no Lox vox Uni versity I. In Mr. DEACLZ, the Baring. nod the Hamp shire Justices seem to have caught —we were going to say a Tartar—but we would rather say a true born Englishman, for he announces other pro ceedings, and all the world will applaud his spirit. It will be a great public good to teach local aristo cracy, that they aro within the power of the law. But it is grievous that warfare of this kind is necessary ; and really it is high time that we had a general weeding of the magistracy, and that none should be allowed to sit on the beach who do not 'hew by their practices that they understand the full import of the words " judgment in mercy." Yesterday was a dry day throughout, and this day resembles it, they break, therefore, the silly charm of St. Swithin. At this season it always rains without ceasing within the northern tropic, and as the same masses of clouds often extend to higher latitudes, so when they do so, we have rain for many days. This was the case long before this legendary saint ran his mortal career ; but his vo taries easily persuaded ignorant people that it was a weeping of thelleavens for Swithin ; and popular errors we know are more easily implanted than uprooted. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duko, Duchess, and Prince George of Cumberland returned to their residence at 16w, on Sunday night, from a visit to their Majesties at the Palace at Winrisor. The Earl of Carlisle, Earl Grey, Viscount Mel bourne, and Lord Holland, arrived at t h e P a l ace at Wi n d sor , on Sunday evening, on a vi,it to their Majesties. A conference of the Ministers of the Five Great Powers was held yestatlay afternoon at the Foreign Office, yid& was attended by the Russian, French, and Austrian Ambassadors; the Baron de Wessenburg, the Austrian Envoy Exuaordinary ; Count Matoushcvits, the Russian Envoy Extraordinary; and Viscount Palmerston. The Spanish and Saxon Ministers transacted' business yestenlny, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Hanse Towns Minister transacted business yestetlay at ,he Board of Trade and Council Offices. The Chancellor of the Excheiuer entertained al party of Members of the House of Commoas at dinner, on' Saturday evening, at his residence in Downing-street. Among the party were Sir tVilliam Guise, General Palmer, Messieurs Briscoe, Ewart, Slane], Carter, Benett, Hey wood, Kcmp, Lennard, Lumley, Paget, Power, Strutt, and Wane. It is expected that O'Conor Don will be returned without opposition for the county of Roscommon, Mr. Lloyd having resigned. Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the electors of the county of Meath, strongly urging them to return Mr. Henry Grattan for that county. The squadron under Sir Edward Codrington, which was off Piysnouth last week, has been off Falmouth at different times, since Sunday last. The squadron, which con sists of twelve vessels, is not expected to return to port for three weeks or a mouth. Since the establishment of a uniform for De puty-Lieutenants, their number has been nearly doubled; which looks as if a laced coat had more attractions for these bloodless soldiers than the merit of serving their country. Lieut.-General Sir Colin Halkett, the Com mander-in-Chief on the Bombay establishment, embarks at Portsmouth, on board the Upton Castle, on the 20th of August. Two memorials, of a directly opposite tendency, have been forwarded to Lord M e lbo urne f rom Saltuh--the one praying that the Borough may be transferred from Schedule A to Schedule B of the Reform Bill, by which alteration it would be allowed to return one Member; the other manorial prays that it may remain in Schedule A, and consequently be wholly disfranchised, it being considered im. possible that an independent constituency can be created In the place. Madame Vestris has taken the Olympic Theatre on a lease of five years. The Richmond Theatre, under the management of Mr. Kean. opened on Monday last, and has been fashion ably attended. Mr. Charles Kemble, Miss Fanny Kemble, Miss Inverarity, Wallack, and T. P. Cooke, are engaged by Mr. Kelly, the manager of the Southampton Theatre. JuLts RCGONDI'S CONCERT.—NO person that has not heard the performance of this wonderful youth on the guitar, can form a correct amino of the powers of that instrument. His concert took ,dace at the King's Theatre, on 'aturday . and w as numerously and fashionably attended. He played most of his favourite (nieces, not omitting his vs. nations on Non pin moan. sad Isis great merit received the universal surprise and applause of the company. The talent Of i'ASTA, RAIMBAUX, and 'Madame DOLLEN co-nperattd i t Vic concert, and the huinour of 1)E BEOXII was finely displayed in the laughable tlue.to with Gui. BELL', of .Ventre Franciso. The singular case of Mr. Wellesley was again argued at considerable length in the Court of Chancery this day. Upon the application of the Solicitor-Geocral, and certain arguments adduced by the learned gentleman, the Lord Chancellor said —" In consequence of the points you have raised, I suspend the order for immediately taking Mr. Wellesley to the Fleet Prison till Thursday." On that day the Solicitor-General is to resume his argument against the committal of Mr. Wellesley. A Noble law-Lord, whose sentiments have been hitherto in abeyance, has, it is now skid, determined to join the ranks of the and-reformers, and to mist them with all his might. Several Members who have either served, or are beyond the age for serving on Election Committees, tired of the endless discussion on the Reform Bill, have left town, having paired off for the remainder of the Session. Calcraft's Divorce Bill (the order for the further consideration of which was suddenly discharged the other day, without any other day being named) is again placed on the Order Book of the Howe of Lord,. The Earl of Rad nor, on Friday, called the attention of the House to the subject; and, on his motion, the bill was ordered to be far ther considered on Friday, the 6th of August. Several witnesses were ordered to attend, and the Lards were directed to be specially summoned. On the approaching abolition of the Essex street office, it is proposed that one of the hackney-coach inspectors be deposited as a curiosity tither in Mr. Cross's Gallery or the British bluseum, being an animal never yet seen, we belkve, by the public. NEWTOWN BA RUIN—We prepared our readers on Tuesday for the result of the Ncwtounbarry affair. The Grand Jury have ignored the bills against Graham, even for inanidaug:iter—and though bills were found against a policeman, the people refused to prosecute. The people, we think, were perfectly right. We confess we have a strung Indisposition to approach this subject, though, heaven knows, we have sufficient provocation by the fero cious delight, wort h y the meridian of New inland, which the an arch lets express, at the slaying and drowning of so many innocent men and women, and at the refusal, on the part of the Grand Jury, to have, we will not say, justice done— , for we dare not accuse a Grand Jury of partiality—but at' least a trial had. In this affair, it is admitted on all hands that the Marquis of Anglesey did every thing that loan could do for the purpose of speeding the ends of justice. But his Excellen c y was d e f eate d, and the people were defeated. What a frightful state is this country in What a picture i of society do these transactions exhibit ! We read in the I London Papers of the ill-will existing in several parts of England between the upper and lower orders of society. What is it in Ireland P But enough for the present. Our limits, and we are glad of it, force us to desist —Dublin livening Post. If Mr. Wellesley were committed to the Fleet, how long is he to remain ? What measure of suffering atones to the offended dignity of the Court of Chancery ? Surely this is a constitutional point for solemn parliamentary determination ! His " amiable" offence is taking his own child under his on n care—and when before was this an offence —in what country, under what religion, in what age ? It seems, in truth, to be an error in limine; and would it not be wiser to correct it, than to raise a further question ? The Court of Chancery against the whole world! What will Government do with the Irish Yeo manry? They are condemned by public opinion, and what has occurred at Wexford will not assuage the public feelings. If they are above the law, it is certainly time to dissolve them. Lord Althorp has announced that no more arms are to be deli vered to them, and this marks them ; but this is not enough. English opinion concurs with Irish denunciation, and there ought to be no possible chance of a repetition of the scenes of Newtown berry. We are, in all such cases, for recurring to the old constable's staff; but if soldiers' weapons are to be used, let it be by disciplined soldiers, and not by impassioned and reckless partisans. The public press of the kingdom is charged with being partial to Ministers—but what does it owe them ? They disturbed all the relations of its pro perty by announcing in form, a proposed repeal of duties ; and after thus creating various engage ments among parties—and even fixing the then distant first of July, they now compromise the interests of hundreds without even a plausible apo logy. If the press upholds them, it must be therefore for reasons which are not personal. SPIRIT OP THE JOURNALS. HERAI.D.—Sir Robert Peel talks of the menaces" which are held out sgait.st him by the press, aril of the " total disregard" with which he Meats them.— Sir Robert Peel, in fact, has been spoiled by the pres., like other spotid children, le had Deer reined till h.• a wis correction, but, when the hour of CUrree.ion comes, cannot submit to the slightest rebuke. As long as the press ht.. moored and flattered, and cried up Sis Robert Peel, it was " the people's best instructor:" but now that the right baronet is doomed to hear a few wholesome, but unpaiatabie truths, from the same quaver, nothing can be half so I,:•t; or mischievous as the press. But what Sir Robert Peel n con. by " menaces" we do not at all understand. If coy tlong, ~f the kind has been exhibited, i' must nave been in a part of the press which has never come within the reach of our ob servation. The truth is. though the press has lately been under the necessity of ulimg the worthy baronet a few home truths, which are caletil onl to take down his '4f-im portance " a peg or two," yet both, as far es we are con cerned, or have seen, correction has been inflicted with a sparing hand, and in a temptr rartaking much more of kind ness than of " menace." TIMES.—It is impossible for Sir Rob rt Peel to ent.r tain contempt for The Press, and his affectation of the eel. timent only got him laughed at. It is impossible, we rep, tt, for any intelligent man like Sir Hobert I'M to des; power which acts so via iouely, but which crumbles i..... dust the moment in which its n oral foundt.tim.s of truth, good sense, and general ir.re grit y, sink front under it. Where has the press any other than forces like these to reit upon ? Where are to be found its bayonets ? Where its predator) ' boroughs ? The press is called by some bubblers, renal What is the evidence for such a charge? If venality be imputable to any class of Englishmen, look nut to th.. columns of newspapers for your proofs,— look to the red book,—to the reports of Pal liatecnt,—to the list. of pensions and sineeuree.—to colenial functionaries twenty deep,—to mercenary Lords,— to painphleteering, job bing, mitre.hunting dignitaries of the Church,—to the innumerable tribes of vermin, bred within the folds of that poisonous mantle, et Melt has wrapped for ages, And gradually numbed the Herculean might of England. Even on any aristocratic principle, Sir R. Peel has no right to take airs In talking of an intellectual power, wielded in many instances by men, who, according to the drawing. room sense of the word—a sense which he no doubt despises as we do, but better understood, and more fondly cherished. by some of the right hon. baronet's Tory friends—might call themselves " his betters." Sir Robert Peel owes his wealth to the homeliness of his origin. These are gentle men, we believe, connected with the press, proprietors of it and writers for it, who might have been as rich as be, if their fathers had not been, to use the silly language of that day, " too well born to condescend to the condition of weavers." Is that to their credit ? Bah ! Or a reproach to Sir Robert Peel's history ? The rational world honours him and hie immediate ancestor the more. But it is a bone to gnaw for those stretched puppies who yelp out their querulous insolence from day to day, as if English journal iits might not be found who were, even in their own childish view of things, as in all other respects, " their bettns." WiU any of these individuals presume to address by name or in person, a gentleman connected w ith any department of the press, the duties of which require liberal education, in language implying disparagement to him or his profession ? We suspect not. CORBETT'S REGISTER.—Tars Aattroceacr.— There arc two sorts of aristocracy ; some with brains in their skulls, and some without. Th e atter arc, 1 hear, very loud in their expressions of determination to defeat the Re form Bill. It is to be hoped that the former will outnumber them, or, at any rate, outweigh' them ; fur if dint bill be not passed, this country will be in a state of convulsion. It was in absolute commotion during the last election. It was a commotion of public spirit for the affecting of a great and salutary object ; every man in the community was moved ; every one had the object at heart; what, then, are to be the consequences of the loss of that object ? In short, it is re form, or that which the ignorant part of the aestocracy will • slke ten thousand times less than reform. • No part of the people have, as yea, openly declared few a Republic ; but they have all declared that boroughmongeting shall not last any longer. The people of France, as Burke very truly re. marked, would have startled with scorn and indignation et the proposition of a Republic in the month of January, 1789; but after they had found that they must remain as they had been, ground down to the earth by a profligate court, and an insolent and tyrannical aristocracy ; after they found that their only choice lay between a continua tion of their oppressions and the destruction of all the pri vileged orders, they determined upon the latter. If the aristocracy of England should still be resolved, as 1 trust they will not, to follow the example of the aristocracy of France, what right have they to expect, what reason have they to expect, that the result will not be the same? I hope they will take warning in time. The example of the republican government in America is inexpressibly awl eating. Men cannot persuade themselves that government, and good and efficient government, too, cannot be carried on here, in proportion to the number of the people, as cheaply as it is carried on there; and I, who ought to be a judge of the matter, am firmly convinced that it can. While this example exists before our cycle; while there is this great bait to draw men towerds a republic, what monstrous fools must the aristocracy of tingland be, to tell the people of England that they shall continue to be borne down to the earth hy taxes ! And this is whet they will tell them if the bill for parliamentary reform be rejected. The remedy which the people have in heir hands is, to let the tax.gatherer seize for the taxes, and sell the goods, when he can. In several place', this was proposed to be done, before the reform bill was brought in. One parish in Lon don doing this, or eine parish in any one of the counties, would bring the thing to issue at once. I, some time ago, • inserted from a Sussex paper a declaration from Sir Godfrey Webster, that he would do this if 'he reform bill did not pass. However, there wouk: need no likas example ; the whole country is ripe for this species of legal ab.ti. nence ; and, therefore, again I express my hope that the bill will meet with no determined resistance, and • that the peace of the country will once more be r.stored. I The Ministers know very little of the state of the coml. try : if they knew it, they would know that the reenters are wholly utsahle to pay a sufficiency of wages ; that the L. bourses are determined to have that sufficiency ; and that the farmers are quite ready to make common cause with the labourers; that is to say, quite ready to avail themselves of their protection against the demands of the tithe.oener and elle tax-gatherer. From the language of Lord Brougham the other night, relative to the rights of the Church, I CT sure that be knows nothing at all of the state of men's minds thrcugbout the country. I am sure that he knew, nothing of what is passing amongst those in that middle rank of life on whose opinions and wishes every thing meet finally turn. I wish, while he is so zealously engaged in diffusing Useful Knowledge, he and his colleagues would imbibe a Mae themselves; they would then know I that, from one end of England to the other, people are resolved that the Church, in its present state of abuse, shall nor, if they can legally prevent it, exist any longer. To talk to them of the rights of sql Church is talking to them of what they really understand much better than Lord Brougham appears to undersrantL Their school master has been abroad, indeed ; and they all repeat his opinions, and at the same time, too ; just like a parcel of boys, or, at least, with as much unanimity, as a panel of boys, repeating a weird or a sentence at one of the new Schools. They arc all truly informed upon the subject ; they all know the cause of their sufferings, and are all con vinced that they never can be removed but by a reform of tise Parliament, or by something still more dangerous to the aristocracy; and this something none of them want. Take them, therefore, while they are in the mind to stop short of extremities. Not to speak profanely, " Kiss the Selo, lest he be angry, and turn from thee for ever." What are the aristocracy without the people? The people offer themselves to them: if they reject the offer now, never will it be made to them again. 1, for instance, should grieve most sorely to see this form of Government changed: it has been the best in the world : it has been the model for the next beat in the world: the country has been the great est and the happiest in the world dating its existence ; but it has been changed: it is not what it was: innovations enormous have made it quite another thing: we want it re stored to what it was : we want a man oto to be transported for killing a wild animal : we want that none but the judges of the country should have the power to transpokt se Ire. and to scourge men, and to imprison them for any learlaot time, beyond certain limited correctional hours or days :ewe want to be freed from the everlasting dunning,' and instat e - 1 • lags of the tax-gatherer we want to be permitted to writ • the produce of our 0,16 fields into drink Amour own cellars in short, we want to be rotas, and to lead easy and happy lives, such as out (meridiem led, and such as are due to out exemplary industry, integrity, and all our virtues, public and private. These are the things that we want : shad, Cop • • forbid that these things should be found to be incompatible with the condonation of this present form of Government ! GOD forbid that we should be driven, as the Fends am, to a choice between slavery sad a republic I Viseadon, Bravo. Paredes, Colis, Morn, Peralto, i)iludo, Gomez, Muguerza, and Iriarte ; Captains Podriguez, Centeno, Escribas, Jiminez, Campos, 'jade, Palma, and Ocboa ; and Lieutenants, &c. Bermudez, Aguado, Soto, Parias, Alvarez, and Mare. It is rumoured that other dissensions are about rising among the friends of General Jackson. It is said that it has reached the ears of the President, that he has been completely gulled by Van Beuren, shat in consequence of a letter received by the latter from Mr. M'Lane, intimating his wish to retire from London, and suggesting to the Secretary his the vacancy in propria persona, the latter aroceeded to operate upon the " old man" to pro ire ho removal of the Secretary at War, offering .1 make the sacrifice of resigning himself, and :aking the embassy to London. An unfortunate disclosure of the contents of the private letter has developed the whole intrigue ; and it is believed Van neuron will not be permitted to go to Eng land, and Mr. M'Lane will not be admitted into the Cabinet. So we go.—Washingtmi Journal. Tiii CAPITAL OF NORTY CAROLINA DE -3TROYLD BY FIRE.—We have been fuvoured by our post master, Alr. Shore, with the following extract of a letter, received by him yesterday morning, from which it appears that the State house of North Carolina, at Raleigh, has been re to ashes, and every thing contained within the walls, save the records, consumed with it. Ibis is a severe misfortune to our sister State, and is the more to be lamented by the American public cenerally, as the capital of North Carolina, at the tune of the accident, contained one of the most .:: , lendid specimens of art in the United States 'he statue of Washington, by Canova—which, as a fell in the mass of rains, and as its celebrated sculptor is now no mme, is perhaps for ever lost to die world.--Pctershuro EVENING STAR. i • • I t 1! 1 i t 1 't • ' r i 1 ! i i i ' l l . . , . . 7 ,:1 - Ft 1 . It" 1 t ' t I' r t 1 1 1 '7% :a. 0 1 ' 1.4 ti 1