Star. — London, England, 1831-03-12 00:00:00

- ! . 1 . i NING STAIR. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH 12. We congiatulate our Readers, on having this day to lay before them a contradiction of the unfortunate disaster which was supposed to be fatal to the cause of Polish independence. In the STAR of the last two days, we gave our readers a digest of all intelligence which had arrived on this interesting subject ; and we expressed our doubts of its authenticity. We now find our suspicions confirmed. If Warsaw be fallen, it is now certain, that it could not have occurred at the time specified. We are not without hopes, that even yet the Patriots may prove successful. The country is the worst in the world for a winter campaign ; and nothing but the desperation of a tyrant, and the fear that time might call forth in aid of justice, the indignant an•ords ofother nations,could have involved an army of 200,000 men in such a service. Our readers will perceive in some of the extracts, we have this day made from the Paris Journals, sample of the sentiments which predominate in France, And which we suspect will become irresistible. The correspondent of the Herald confirms the impression i.onveyed by our own correspondent's letter of yesterday, hat M. L.►rITTE is to ha►•e the formation of a new Administration. The great question about the renewal of the East India t:ompany's Charter, will speedily engross the attention of I he public. In considering it, we mus t not reason as a Intion of adventuring merchants, •grasping at every con tingent advantage ; but as a great body-politic, acting with snbrietv on eternal principles of political justice. Without the Company, we should never have had an East India in terest to scramble about. But by its exertions, we now liate to consider the interests, of nearly one hundred mil liens of various nations in the East ; and our public rela :ions with them, created and established by the Company. It is not, therefore, a question between the Company, and certain speculating merchants in England, which we have to determine ; but all that relates to the welfare of an Em pire, de facto, created by the Company, unparalleled in !lapin:de, and splendour. Nor is it a question which concerns people of similar manners and religion ; for the lianagement of Orientals is a branch of policy, Sid generic, in which success is a result of long experience, and intimate Knowledge. The obnoxious term monopoly, is therefore, irrelevant in ibis case ; fur it is.rather a system of exclusive and peculiar policy, etsential to the attainment of an object which characterizes this establishment. On other occasions I.e will return to t' , is question, for we regard it as one of -jugular impo!tatice. and as one on which hasty judgment, on imperfect promises, ought not to be pronounced, and too f , .en is proncunceii. The Ballot kr two election Committees last night delayed the opening. LA' the House of Commons, ti;l after the period 11 we IFtially print a Second Edition. Very important ii.terests then engaged the house till nearly two o'clock,—namely, the Trade between the West Indies, Ind the United States and Canada, on the policy of the re culations of m I•ich. there was great difference of opinion. Too much reference was made to the opinions of Mr. HOS.. KISSON, whose reputation for wisdom on the subject arose from mystifications addressed to incompetent judges. Mr. Pow tr :T TOOMPSON proposed to abolish the 6s. Juty on Flour from the United States to Canada, and im pose ss. on the inipoitations into the West Indies, affording protection to our chipping of 255. per ton. Staves and iloards to be raised from 18s. 9d. to 236 ; and 265. on the red and white. The Duty on Beef and Pork le be re amed. Mr. lisualFs explained at length, that all these pro-. posals were exactly analogous to what he had submitted, though opposed. Mr ROBINSON, with his usual tact on these subjects, contended that in all these arrangements, we were over reached by the United States, to which no concessions should have been made, until they rescinded their Tariff. It was monstrous to open the West Indies to their shipping already 1,600,040 tons, and daily increasing, while they maintained a Tariff so injurious to our manufactures and shipping. Mr. C. GRANT hoped the concession would lie•I all the animosities between the two countries. Mr. K. DOUGLAS objected to the application of far fetched principles of political economy ; and protested against the new timber duties, as calculated further to reduce our shipping 200,000 tons, for the sake of 600,0001. revenue. Mr. Cou RTEN A Y justified the system; but Sir H. PAR NELL objected to prohibitory duties in favour of the West Indies. Mr. WoRTLEY applauded any plan which restored a good understanding with the United States. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON was satisfied it would only, be an advantage to the United States, and none what ever to the West Indies or Canada. He intended to give the timber duties his utmost opposition. Mr. BENETT thought no measures could obstruct a desired trade. Canada had long received Rum through the United States. He thought the duties on West India produce ought to be diminished. Mr. WARBURTON thought it absurd to speak of Ca nada as part of this country, when none of her products could be imported duty free. Lord ALTHORP said the timber duties would be brought forward that day fortnight. He thought the interests of the Colonies should be subservient to the general interests. Mr. }luau agreed with Lord ALTIIORP, and objected to any protecting or prohibitory duties. He applauded the opening the trade between the United States and the West Mr. °TON N ELL considered the interests of Ireland as endangered, if American pork were to be passed to the West Indies through Canada, free of duty ; Mr. Hitanits said Mr. O'CONNELL was right. The Reform bills are to be delivered to the Members on Monday. In a Committee of Supply, Mr. ATT WOOD complained of the multiplicity of subjects distracting the attention of the House. He stated that great practical inconvenience arose from the announcement of reduced duties, and then post poning the effect. Lord Airimier explained ; and Sir C. W ETHER ALL reiterated the observations of Mr. ATTWOOD. Mr. GOULBURN was surprised that 600,0001. was taken for timber duties, which were not to commence till October. Lord ALTHORP observed, that as the reduction of the duties on Sugar, last year, had afforded no relief to the West India Interest, no other partial reduction would be useful; and he could not reduce the duties on Rum, without preju dice to important interests in this country. The Marquis of CU Ali DOS moved, as an amendment, that all Brown and Muscovado Sugar from British America, and the Mauritius, should be subject to a duty of 20s. per hundred weight. Mr. BERNAL supported the amendment, unless sugar and molasses were permitted in distilleries; and Mr. H. DAY Is concurred. Lord ALTIIORP stated, that the alteration would reduce the duties on malt gOO,OOOl. Mr. GORDON, Mr. IRVING, Sir E. CARRINGTON, Mr. C. FERGUSSON, Mr. HUME, and Mr. K. DOUGLAS, severally supported the amend ment ; some contending, and very justly, that reduc tion of price would increase consumption. But Mr. l BENETT maintained that the landed interest ought to be protected by the consumption of barley ; and Sir F. BURDETT thought it unfair to press the subject. On a division the numbers were, for the Marquis of CRAW DOS amendment 49, for Lord ALTIIORP'S resolution 147 this being the first division since the formation of the new PRICE OF STOcKB cy rt. runs. 755 f # 1 # C:ni+ for ilee. 751 1 I I per rent. Red. abut :q 1 ,,, rt. Ma, abut 11 per Ct. Red. abut :s per Cent. New, 80 1# FOREIGN STOCKS. Danish, 574. Gesa,lB2s, for Account, 23. Russian, 894; for Acct, 894 ; ditto 111. —. Spanish, 16144; for Acct. 164. Spa nish, 1823, for Arca, 14. French 5 per Ct, 82f 90c. Three per Ct, 52f 75c. Exchange, 2M. OMPANIES. Irish Grand Canal, 7:4 Forth and Clyde, £625 Liv. & Man.Railway,.£lB6 tal9o Cromford, £45 Guardian, Albion Fire, £75 Alliance, £8 Ss County, £4O Bolanos Mines, £lBO Steam Navigation, dis. £6 15s TISII COMMERCE. CAP[— (92g.) £9 to £lB. Hious—Butts,2od to 23d; Buenos Ayres (A.) 9d to lOid. Correa--Jam. middling, £2 14s to £3 31; Dem. and Berbice, £2 8s to £4 2s; Mocba, £3 Ss _ _ to ,C 6 10s. TKA—Bohea, Is lld to 2s 0c1; Congou, mid. 2s 2d to 2s 9d ; Hyson, mid. 4. 3d to 49 6d. Burr . eitCork, £4 143 to £4 16s; Dutch, £4 10s. Camas—Cheshire, old, £3 10s to £3 183; S.Glo'ster.X2 to £2 81. TALLOW—Russia ycl. £2 Ts 3d ; White, £2 71 6d. Rtcs—Carolina ' 14s Od to 191; Bengal, 174 6d to Vls 6d. Suomi-24s Sid per cwt.. &IMMIX MARRET.Rter, 41 2d to 41 8d ; Mutton, 5s Oil to 5s 4d; Veal, 5s Od to 61 Od; Pork, 4s 6d to 5s 4d. MARK -LANs, MARCH ll—Wheat, 66s to 78s ; Barley, 445 to 481; Oats, 22s to .128.__ GAZCIiZ AVERAGE, MARCH 11.- Wheat, 729 4d; Barley, 439 9d ; Oats, 26. 10d; Bmns, 39. 4d. Hor UNMET, Boaouc99.—Kent. 196, £8 129 to ,el 4 Os ; Farm _ . _ • bam 4'14 Os to £l9 Os. COAL :F.UNA/CGS, MMICH 11. —Best Wall's End, 28. od to 28s 6d ; other sorts, 21. 04 to 26. 6d. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET, MARCH 18.—Hay, £2 21 to se4 ss. Straw, £1 124 to £2 Os. Ora o'Ctoca.—Barometer, 29.78; Thermometer, 52. Wind S.W. Weather, frosty, and fair. PUBLIC CI Bank Stock, shut India Stock, —. rAnds, London Docks, £59 10, St. Catherine's. J:7B lo s City Gas, £l9O Bank of Scotland, £167 British Linen, .£250 Grand Junction, .£243 Leeds, .095 Regent's, £lB STAPLES OF BM' Cfrrron (Liv.)—Georgia, Bowed, 6d to 74d Sea Wand, lld to 20d ; N. Orleans, 6id to 81 j Won (Lon.) Saxony prima, 33 to 56; Austrian prima, 2$ to 4s; Segovia, 24 Od to 2s 6d ; South Down, 12 to 15 ; Blanket, 7 to 9. e, thrown—Piedmont White, I 7s to 45s ; yellow slack, 24. to 27s ; Modena raw, 14s to 161; Bengal, 10$ 01 to 15s ; China, 13s 6al to 17$. FLAX —Riga, £52 ; Ant. £5O £65. !q- Pigs, £4 10. Od to £4 15s; Bars, £6 5i Od to £6 100.1;! _ _ - - . Swedish, £l3 to Sl3 10s. COPPER—.CB7 to £BB Os; South Amer. X 72 to .67:110s. 1.1.4 n —Bars, £l3 151 to £l4. TlN—Blocks, £3 15s. SUGAR—Lumps, large, £3 3s Od to £3 4s Od ; Powder, fine, £3 16s to £4 6s Od ; Bengal, .£1 2s Od to £1 4s ; Jamaica, fine, £2 16. to £5 Os. TORACCO-.—:%laryland,3id to Sid; Virginia, 5 to 6; Cuba, 15 to 18. Otr—Flur. £1 is Od half chest; Linseed, £2 Os ocl per cwt; Pale nape, £2 10$. 15 %Noy—Bordeaux, 5s to 5s 6d. liust—Jam. (14) 2s 3d to 2s 5i1;! Dcm (10 a 20) 2s to 2s 2d. WHISKY', 104 94 to its. GENCVA, es 6.1 to .I.lt novr—Good, .C 35 to £4O. ill ERRY—Good, .as to £4O. MADEIRA—bin. P. £7.0 to £4O. T TWO O'CLOCK. per Ct. 1826, long Ann. Jan. 111110, Oki Annuitiv:— New, tlOOO Rule. Bills 17 18 £3OO Ditto 17 18 £lOO and £2OO Do. 17 18 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE-EXCLUSIVE. PARIS, MARCH 10. We have several times announced the dismission of the King's attorney, M. Comte ; it is certain that the resolution of that measure has been taken for a long time, and it is with great difficulty that it has at last been executed. It was very difficult to deprive a man of his functions who fulfilled them in a manner so honourably, and to find a magistrate who would consent to succeed him. M. Desmortiers, for merly Judge of Instruction, replaces M. Comte; M, Mo rilhou has ceased his functions of keeper of the seals ; M. l d'Argout, minister of marine, is charged provisionally with the portfolio of justice. It is expected that there will shortly be a recomposition of the Cabinet. May the Go vernment be inspired by wise councils ! The present mo ments are grave and perilous; the fate of France is in the keeping of a few men. Le Constitsaionnel. The news of the fall of Poland, presaging the fate of France, has struck all souls with indignation mixed with stupor. The men who have allowed themselves to be se duced by the deceitful assurances of power, are more guilty than the patriots, who for several months studied our destiny. We know that the conduct of France in respect to Po • land, was exactly that of an army who leaves one of its battalions to fight singly a division of the enemy. The bat talion could not fail to sink ; it has done its duty; it has died with glory. Let us honour its tomb and imitate it. This sad but calm language is very different to that of the dupes whieli the ministry has made, by the organ of its twenty journals, a daily distribution of opinions and foresight.— These, amused until yesterday by sweet hopes of peace, appeared to awaken as from a dream, by the report of can non and fire. They understand, at last, that the country is in danger. In the midst of this general anxiety, who made, we will not say the ministry, for it is no more ; it is dislo cated, dissolved ; and, perhaps, to-morrow some of the men who composed it will be found in dungeons; for they have also their moments of patriotism. Who made, not the mi nistry, but the Gamarilla ? If we may believe accredited reports, they pretend still to have hopes of peace ; they de mand it with great energy. Slaughter Poles, they say to Russia; to Austria, slaughter the Italians ; to Prussia, slaughter the Belgians. Slaughter ! slaughter ! but leave me tranquil. What ! must we still do something more to please you ? You hate the patriots of July, who gave the example of insurrection? Well, have we not already two hundred of them in prison ? We will imprison thirty others, whom one hundred and fifty shall quickly follow. Tou hate our journals which appealed to insurrection ; well, see how we treat them. M. Persil —is he not for them another Diebitsch ? M. Comte incoentea;ed them ; we sent M. Comte away. • Could M. Polignac have done better? Thus, uost honour able sirs, do not cause :!-, to wage a useless war ; confide in us as in the Carnarilla of Charles X. And how do tia.se i honourable sirs reply to ail this slaughtering ? ‘1 by, Ly un prisoning, dismissing, persecuting the patriots ; that there shall be less trouble to take Paris than Warsaw. Those who can believe in the sincerity of any other re;thes, nee it, themselves, a brevet of madness. That which has never been doubted be is, is become evident to eyes the most prepos sessed. The Messager itself avowed, yesterday, that the Ifall of Poland would be the commencement of a war of ex termination, between the north and the south. Thip, then, there is no more subterfuge to be employed ; that which iu France will be against liberty, and against its partis,::,s, will no more pass for a concession made to foreigners, in or der to avoid war ; this will not manifest a means of defence, to save the country in the struggle which is preparitr; ; this will manifest treason. May Louis-Philippe open his eyes at last; may he cause to be arrested and judged as traitors, all men who dare to speak against the friends of the revolu tion ; may he set at liberty the patriots of July, who crowd the prisons ; may he listen to the wishes of the p€ople ; 'Any he assemble the true representatives, capable of embodying these wishes in ow. laws ; may lie give to the soldiers and to the citizens, chiefs worthy of their confidence, and the enthusiasm of July may revive, and France may yet be saved. But there is but just: time.—La Tribune. Extract of a letter from Turin, of the 28th of February.— "At Milan all is tranquil. There has n,t been received from Vienna, the order to march upon Modena, Farina, and Romagna, as was expected ; this makes us think that the Austrian Cabinet dreads to agitate the question of non intervention, and makes us hope that all will be treated diplomatically at London. The Austrians have to the amount of 60,000 men in the kingdom Lombardo• Venitien, but very tranquil. Our King is rather sick, but is said to be a little better this morning. It is said that the Pope has taken refuge at Florence, Rome having established a Senate, in which abides the temporal Government." The Gazette of Milan of the 26th of Feb. announces,— " That the fortress of Ancona had capitulated, as well as the fort of St. Leo. The insurgents being masters of these forts, nothing is opposed to their march upon the City of Rome. News the most positive, this evening, announce that the City of Rome holds out still against the insurgents, though pressed on all sides. The Court of Turin has ahewn itself very satisfied with the measures of the French Government, which prevented the revolution ready to burst out in that country. The Prince de CA IZIGNas has been sent upon the frontier of the side of Bellegarde, with a mission to obtain the re-establishment of tranquillity. At the moment of the departure of the courier from Turin, there had been received despatches from Naples, announcing that, although it was expected that the King would decide to name a ministry semi -liberal, he had made, on the con trary, a choice directly opposed ; that is to say, in the sense entirely absolute.—Massager des Chambres. General Clauzel, who is now performing quarantine at Toulon, bade farewell to the army of Africa by the follow ing order of the day : " Soldiers !—Having to separate myself from you, I ad- i dress to you my adieus, and the expression of any gratitude ' for the confidence you have had in me, since I had the ho nour to command you. Your conduct before the enemy has been most brilliant, and your discipline always perfect. The old warriors are proud to see you imitate their devotion, they, share in your triumphs, and see with pride that France. va liantly defended by you, will ever be the country of glory. The King confides to a part of the army, the care of the preservation of the conquest; and the conquest well deseiares the price of the gratitude which Christianity decrees to France, for having executed an enterprise so worthy of these noble sentiments. Soldiers ! Count always upon me, upon my constant affection, upon my care to cause your ser vices to be valued and recompensed. Adieu ! Soldiers, wo shall see you upon the Rhine, the Alps, or the Pyrenees, should France have need of you.—At the Head-quarters, at Algiers, Feb. 19, 1531. .__ _ (Signed) " Count CLAUZ EL." ;CITY, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off yesterday at 751 for the account, opened at the same price, went up to 75i for money ; at present they are 75g. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, which were done at 75i for money in the morn ing, continue steady at present at 75g fur the Account. In the Foreign Market little doing. Their Majesties entertained tie Duke of Sussex, Prince Leopold, and a select party at dinner on Thursday evening, at St. James's-palace. The Queen had a concert in the evening, which was performed principally by her Majesty's private band. Miss Cramer sang several pieces in the course of the evening. The Concert concluded at eleven o'clock. The Duchess of Cumberland, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Sussex, and Princess Sophia, visited the Queen yesterday. The KING and QUEEN left St. James's Palace, at a quarter before four o'clock; in a travelling carriage and four, for Windsor Park. Lord John Russell and the Attorney-General were in at tendance at the Foreign Office during the time that the Council sat in deliberation yesterday. The Council broke up at half-past three o'clock. The Russian and Austrian Ambassadors, and the Prussian Minister, visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Fo reig►n Office. The Landgravine of Hessz Homburg, dined with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. The Queen, .the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. We understand that his Majesty intends giving a grand entertainment to the Knights of the Bath, on an early day. They will appear in the full costume of the Order. At a recent s:plendid entertainment, Lord B—m appeared in a suit of black velvet, of an antique cut, and his grotesque appearance excited the risible faculties of a few who are more initiated in the beau monde than the learned lord. Among the Duke of Aledena's papers has been dis covered a correspondence between the Emperor Francis, Prince Metternich, the King of Sardinia, and the Duke. These papers are about to be published, and will, it is said, produce a strong sensation in France. From this we may infer, that they afford evidence of an intention of the Powers to attack France when their preparations are sutli ciently advanced In consequence of the repeal of the duty, the price of seaborne coals at Norwich has fallen Bs. per chaldron. POLITICS AND " TIIE SCHOOLNIASTER."—On Thurs day evening, the day on which the result of the Reform measure was known, a schoolmaster at Walworth, a warm espouser of the eause of the present Administration, gave to each of his scholars the following three copies for their writing lesson ,—Large hand, " Parliamentary Re form ;" German text, " Lord John Russell and Reform ;" small hand, " Victory over the Boroughmongers—gained on Thursday morning, at three o'clock, March 10. 1831." It was a kind of Saturnalia throughout the school, only one boy was flogged ; and that was for" smudging" " Parlia mentary Reform" in round hand. SUPPORT OF MINISTERS. A correspondent in Co4:Lester us as (Aims ; .-Inisition is in the cows^ of si nature in 11:SOC for ir Mccti: gto si;; ; :t the Reform Bill by a Petition to Par liament ; but it is confined to the Whig Party, mid as the Tories are by much the strongest, and most influential pan:. in Essex . , it is not very likely to he n:.nir-ronsly signed. Ii is viewed as a party measure; and what is very curious is, that the Libtral party are disposed to oppose it. on grounds of their own, so that between the tiaosithin of the Tories on one side, and the LIBERALS son tl:e other, it is likely that an amendineut nriy be carried lusty ril of it paition. The Liberals oppose the bill, on the giounds of its heiog merely an Aristocratic Wirig manoeuvre, and keause it proposes to disfranchise a large wamb,sr of poor men who are now out-voters to the riorouglis. We are sorry to lied that the Reform Bill has made a wide breach again be tween the Whigs and Tori e s of Essex, and that the Liberals side with neither of them. LIBERTY or TIIE --On Wednesday night a na merous and highly-respectable meeting of the inhabitant learschohie:, of the Liberty of the Tower of London heM, to petition the Legislature in favor of the plan of Par entary Retie m proposed by his Maj e sty' s M ini s ters. MEETING IN CORDWAINERS' WA RD. —Vesteulay, numerous meetin?; of the inhabitant; of Cordwainers' Wat 4 V.AS I.eld, fcl• the pi po,:e of petitioning Parliament in favor of the new plan of Reform. N' or rut: R 1.1.6. —Yesterday, a meeting of the inhabitants of the above Liberty took place, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament to pass the Bill for Reform, as brought forward by Lord John Russeil. The parishioners of St. Dunstan, Stepney, resolved unani mously, at a public meeting held °a Thursday, to petition both Houses of Parliament in favor of the Reform Biil in troduced by his Majesty's Minister:. Weveou•rii.—A requisition has been irc - ,ciated to the mayor of Weyniaoth for convening a meeting of the inha bitants, for the purpose of petitioning parliament, e'p ess:ng their approLation of the plan of a reform in the repr.senta tion, as laid before the House of Commons by Lord J. Russell. CA RN ARV ON.—On Wednesday last, a meeting of the free burgesses of Carnarvon wits 1;01, fo: the purpose of thanking his Majesty's ministers for their truly patriotic plan of Parliamentary reform, and to petition both Houses of Parliament that the same may be Fussod into a law ; and als) to congratulate his Majesty on the integrity of his present political .aevants HUD DEILSI . I EL meeting has been held at Hud dersfield, upon the subject of Parliamentary reform, when it was aereed to petition Parliament, praying that the measure now under consideration might pass into a law. The petition received the signatures of 3,000 names in a few hours. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. Tixzs.—The manner in which addresses in support of the present Parliamentary Reform are pouring in to Ministers, in order to be laid before the Kiog, exceeds all credibility ; and great must lie the gratifi cation of the Sovereign, on finding his own views so perfectly in unison with the wishes of his subjects on this important topic. Bat it is re markable, that from no part of his Majesty s dominions arc the .ithiresscs more frequent or more warm than from Scotland. How does this tact agree with the assertion of a couple of jobbers, that north of the Tweed the measure would give no satisfaction ? One address from Edin burgh is peculiarly deserving of attention, as being signed by neatly half of the thirty-three persons who return the memb.r for that place ! Mr. John Smith, Lord Cleveland, the Duke of Norfolk, and others. professed their readiness to sacrifice their close boroughs at the shrine of Parliamentary Reform, end they have ensured the gratitude of their country for so hououral le a declaration. We perceive, also, in the Edin burgh address to which we have above alluded, that the petitioners ex press the wish that " it should be distinctly understood by their fellow. citizens, and by the ipuhLe, that they have no desire to cling to any privileges which arc; inconsistent with the interests of the. people of Edinburgh, end with the prosperity of the country.'• Hen ALD.It is among the remarkable coincidences of political life that Earl Grey should be the leader of Parliamentary reform in whom the country placed its hope and confidence, not only in youth and in age—not only in Opposition and in Abe highest office, but at two of the mos: eventful periods in the history of modern Europe.—namely, aeon af•er one revolution of France, and immediately subsequent Us another. In the interval which has elapsed between those two piriods how many political promises have been broken—how many pledges of public men have been forfeited—how many champions of patriotism have become recreants to honour—how many stem per. tenders to principle have figured as apostates to their early creed open the stage of public action, while Earl Grey pursues the same cogs-, as Prime Blinister, in 1831, which he advocated as the youthful reformer of 1793—thus consistently giving to Parliamentary Reform the ardour of his early vows, arid the more reflecting support of his veteran wis dom ! It was in 1793 that his Lordship—then Mr. Grey—made his first motion relative to the state of the representation. Several petitions bad been previously presented to the House, praying for Reform, and among them the celebrated one from the society called The Friends of the People." Mr. Grey moved that these petitions be referred to a Committee to report upon the subject to the House. Posr.—The more we reflect upon the provisions of the n:casure miscalled Reform which the Ministry h.ve submitted to the House of Commons, and the more we converse with imm of weight, of stea diness, and of experience, the more fully arc we convinced not only of the destructive tendency of the Bill, but that it is felt to bate such a tendency by an overwhelming majority of the sober, steadfast, thinking class, who have something to lose by Revolution. —Why, linked, should it be otherwise?? For even were it ad. witted that in a Country setting out upon its career, and originating a represenu , eive legislature, such a system would be free from serious objection. yet in a country like this, where ti,e interests are so tiumtrous —so various—and so complicated, and where the representutten has been by long time fitted as it were to our peculiar eircumstatice.. it would be madness to adopt a climge that should instantly wrench and dislocate the political ties and relauons a hich bind the whole system to gether, and which enable us to proceed with safety to ouatime-honoured institutions. Cflaotricce.—lt is true that Lord Castlereagh DI lee a Lungling job of it at the Congress of Vienna; but if we are prepared to in sist on the performance of all the treaties to which he was a party, we must return to the policy of the King's Speech, which preceded the overthrow of the ellington Administration ; we must oppose ourselves to every attempt to alter the arrangements against which half Europe is now complaining. Were we without debt, we should not the lens protest against the creating one, to Ina.n tain wars of ronnentic antipathy. It is true, our debt has chiefly been created in wars for the support of the European Ann. tocraey. The (internment of this country has hitherto been long in the hands of men whose sympathies have Leen with the European Aristo cracy, and who, when they took a side, employed the resources of rite country in furtherar.ce of the cause to which they were inclined. We have now a Gun Tomcat not opposed to foreign improvement—not in dined to support every despotism against its subjects ; but, believing that the Administration will else their influence in promoting the geed cause, we should be a:my to me ti:tnt depart from the line of prudence which a British Ste:es:llan should constantly keep in his eye. Tz re.subjugation tit Poland has put into the habils of the ultra liberal and wat party an additional article of impeachment against the pacific policy of the 3linistry. They have been perpetually declaring, for the last six months, that the coexistence of revolutionary France, and of the alliances of despots, rich with the spoils of Europe, conferred upon them by the 'tendering Congress of Vienna, was impos. Bible,—that France must stuck thi ni, or Le attacked by them at a less cnavenient season,—that she ough; to consider the cat:be of every people st:ugglirg for liberty as her uwm—;bat their defeats are her defeats, and their victories her victories, that the principle of non-intervention should be ea , ended by France to every pi ople, whether they are near her territory, or at a distance—and that Belgium. Switzerland, Poland, and Italy, aliould all be protected by her front foreign ::nsault, and invited to mature their free luau. utions behind her ample shield. The doctrine of ,nomintervention, as reclaimed and enforced by this party, would admit of a most extenaive application, and lead to interminable hoatili. ties. We should have rejoiced in the failure of the Autocrat—we might even have assisted the Poles—but nut on the principles announced by the interfering fanatics of nun-intervention. The ease of Belgium rosy serve for an illustration. The country throw of the ascendancy of Holler el. and renounced the sovereignty of the Orange family. So long as the eon. test lay between the King who endeavoured to recover his power, and the Belgians who coated their independence. there was no interven. Lion. It was only when Prussia was to be called in to assist one of the parties that an interference was to happen, and that France could en. borne her new doctrine. In this case, too, the right of France wait mainly derived from her close neigh bourhood, and the immediate perils which threatened her institutions from a Power endeavourtng fo put down at her own gates those principles on which her institutions were founded. Contact, vicinity, similarity of institutions, or protisble danger, ought to create, modify, or limit the right of enforcing tl non-intervention law contended for by the French liberals.