The Sun. — London, England, 1831-04-25 00:00:00

FLANDERS AND HAMBURG MAILS. tausszcs.—The journals of Wednesday and Friday rive at gnat length the trial of Colonel Borremans, for a , Tonspiracy in favour of the Prince of Orange. On Toes glay, when the prisoner left the Court and was placed in a .carriage to be carried back to prison, a great crowd col hcted, and, not content with uttering the most violent threats and execrations, even threw stones at the carriage, by which one of the gendarmes who escorted it was wounded. In consequence of these proceedings C o l one l Bort:Tr i une wrote a letter to the Regent, in which he says, " 'The attempt just made by the populace to assassinate me has determined me to refuse to appear before the supreme military tribunal, except in the prison where I now am there only will I give an opinion of my past conduct. The example of the unfortunate Gaillard at Lovain, and of Voortinan at Ghent, and the conduct of the men who have assaulted me, render my determination invariable. I hope, Sir, that you will approve my prudence, and give orders accordingly." The Burgomaster issued a proclamation n the subject, in which he exhorts the citizens not t o su ff er t h emse l ves " to be led astray by agitators paid by our enemies, who excite the people to disorder, to scehes of bloodshed, which, if they could be realized, would cover our city with indelible disgrace," The Belgic Association likewise issued a similar exhor tation. On the second day (the desire of the prisoner to be heard in prison not having been complied with), every possiblr precaution was taken to repress the hostile disposition of the mob, which was much more numerous and menacing than on the preceding day, and had occupied all the ave nues to the court. Numerous battalions of the civic guard were under arms. The gendarmes were very nu merous, and great precaution was used in admitting the public into court. During the proceedings all the adjacent streets were cleared, and the civic guard suffered none to enter them. The Auditor-General at the commencement of the pro ceedings declared, that facts which for the first time tran spired during the proceedings of the day before, , obliged him to add to his first report some aggravating circum stances, which he required the Court to take into account. Notice had been given to the Counsel of the accused of the intention of adding the new charges to the indictment. The Auditor-General then proceeded to address the Court for the prosecution. He observed that it was a surprising thing to see a man whom his services in favour of the re volution had raised from the ordinary class of society to the high military rank which he then held, accused of en deavouring to overturn a new order of things to which alone he owed his elevation. He then proceeded at great length to show that such was the fact, and called on the Court to condemn him to death. M. Verreyt, the counsel of the accused, agreed with the Auditor-General, that it was surprising to see the Colonel under such an imputation, and proceeded at great - length to show that it was utterly groundless; be there fore called on the Court to acquit his client. This defence, which was listened to in profound si lence, appeared to make a lively impression on the Court and the public. The President said, " The proceedings are closed ; the Court will deliberate, and will pass sentence, after having received the orders of the Regent, according to Article 77 of the regulations of the supreme military tribunal in these terms :—" Every definitive sentence agreed upon in the first instance by the supreme military court shall be transmitted to the Prince Sovereign before it is pro - . nounced. If no contrary directions are received from the Prince within a fortnight, the sentence shall be pro nounced." " The Court will take care to acquaint the public with the clay fixed for passing the sentence " The energetic measures of precaution taken by the civil and tni:itary authorities maintained order throughout the day. BRUSIRLS, Apart 22.—1 t seems that General Milli net is to have the command at Namur. Count d'AcTschot arrived at Brussels on the 20th. It is affirmed that. General Goethals will have the com mand of the troops in Luxemburg. The Regent has ordered 60,000 francs to be placed at the disposal of the Magistrates of Antwerp, for the relief of the sufferers by the bombardment.—Brussels Papers, April 23. WARSAW, Aram 12.—The Warsaw State Gazette contains the bulletin of the Commander-in-Chief, dated " Siedlee, April 10, nine p.m.," (already received by other channels). The Warsaw Gazette says, " It is reported that be sides the remainder of the carps of Genersla Geismar and Rosen, that of General I'ahlen 11., particularly the divi sion under General Siewers, was in the action. The main army of Field-Marshal Diebitsch is making a retrograde movement. The right bank of the Vistul., to the mouth of Weiprz, is free, and the Russian head-quarters are said to have been moved from Ryki to Barenow, on the other side of the latter river. New and important events are every moment expected." The Warsaw State Gazette of yesterday (11th) says several expresses arrived at Lemberg from the Russian frontiers, announcing an insurrection in Volhynia, for which a fire at Poczajow, on the frontiers of Gallicia, gave the signal. The same Paper has the following letter from Brody, dated April I :—'' It is certain that the inhabi tants of Poczajow have risen against the Russian Govern ment. The monks of St. Basil excited the people to de elate themselves. These ecclesiastics are in possession of a strongly fortified convent—one of the strongest and wealthiest in Europe, which may be looked upon in the light of a citadel. Yesterday evening we heard the report of artillery, and an engagement is supposed to have taken place in the direction of Beresteezko, two miles from here. It is affirmed that a Polish detachment belonging to Dwer nicki's corps has entered Vedhynia. The Austrian Council sent to the authorities of Brody to recomm-nd an imme diate reinforcement of the Austrian frontier garrison, in consequence of which an express was immediately sent off to Lemberg. " P. S. An express has this moment been received, that a strong detachment of Polish troops has entered Rad ziwillow, a frontier town not above half a mile hence." The Polish Courler says—" A corps is gone from Warsaw to take some hundred Cossacks, who are in the forest of Minsk, cut off from the main army. The Polish authorities are returning to the parts left by the Russians. The villagers, with their little remaining property, come back to their dwellings. The fields begin to look green and the corn looks well." The Warsaw Courier says, that many of the inhabi tants of Praga are returning to their homes. WA RSA NV, APRIL 14.—Prince Czartoryski returned here on the l I tl), from the Polish head-quarters. Count Otrowski, referring to his address to the Cuie Guard, publishes a proclamation of ►he General-in-Chief, dated Wielgolas, the 9th inst., in which he says that he expects the National Guard will bravely defend the city if it should be attacked. _ The Governor of the capital again calls on the citizens to defend themselves to the utmost, and says that he has given orders to complete with the utmost speed all the svmks of Warsaw, both within and without the city, so that in a few days it will be in the best state of defence. The State Gazette contains some particulars, but not yet designated as official, respecting the engagement at Iganie, near Siedlee, on the 10th instant. The General attacked the Russian corps of 20,000 men near Siedlec, composed of the remains of the corps of Geismar and Rosen, and 11,000 men of that of Pahlen. Four thou. sand Russians, it says, were killed, and as many taken prisoners. The Warsaw Gazette says, the day before yesterday various reports were in circulation here, such as that Si. dlec was taken by our troops, and that General Uminski had obtained a victory over the Russian Guards. We know from an authentic source that the occupation of Siedlec by our army was no part of our plan, and no official account has b-en received of a victory over the Guards. The report that Field Marshal Diebitsch, with his head quar t ers , has returned to Siennica, gains ground. The first division the Russian prisoners taken near in number, arrived at Praga the evening before yesterday, Among them are Colonel Tscheheto sub titm t ti regim e nt o f yagers, five staff-officers, and thirty The State Gaze tte has i official no farther details from the Commander-in-cof the a c tion near Siedlec ; hut it has a report from hi m of tieBth. in which the number of prisoners taken on the Slit t of March and let of April, is stated at ten thousand ; i t 15 that there are 1,600 Russians wounded in the hospi7al i a d , field and o that the Rus s ians left fifteen thousand d ead on the The Guard s The polish Gazette says— “ near Lomza are about 4, 000 men , besides 2,000 other tr Cassacks,"—Prussian State Gazette, April 18. the B R UNswxcr, APRIL 17.—A despatch was received here on the 13th from Count Veltheim, sent fro m Berli n n e the 12th, containing the p leasin g intelli g ence t hat the affairs of our country will be finally settled in the course of this month, to the satisfaction of every Brunswicker. The Courts of Brandenburgh and Hanover have taken the greatest interest in our cause, and we shall be indebted to those two Powers for the attainment of our wishes. 31EarEr., APRIL 12.—As hardly any Russian troops have yet entered Samogitia, the insurrection spreads. The wole province has taken the oath of fidelity to the king dohm of Poland. All p ea sants from eighteen to forty-five years or' age Lave been compelled to come forward, and are trilled with pikes and scythes. The longer the Russians May in coming to suppress this insurrection, the more difficult will it be. They might not put it down if they came with a strong force. A letter from Memel, of the 18th, says that a strong body of the insurgents occupies Russian Krottingen.— They are said to be above 4,000, and to expect an equal number to join them ; after which they Will again attack the Russian troops near Polangen. Thnre are said to be some cannon at Krottingen. The Russian mail due to-day has not yet (114 a.m.) arrived ; but this may be owing to the swelling of the rivers, or to the usual badness of the roads in Russia at this season. —Hamburg Papers, Aprill9. 13aardw, APRIL 14.—The French surgeons who have ,rrived here on their way to Warsaw ; have not yet ob tained the necessary permission to proceed on their journey. From Georgetaborg, we hear that the insurgents have beaten the Russians near Rossienny, and that the whole palatinate of Augustowo is in full insurrection. Some very important despatches from Diebitsch to the Emperor are said to have fallen into the hands of the Poles. The St. Petersburgh Gazette contains an angry ar ticle, in which certain officious meddlers are soundly rated for interfering in the Polish affairs, and presuming to be more magnanimous than the Emperor himself. " These politicians," says the article in question, " forget that Russia has to do with a handful of intriguers bent in fo menting discord, belonging in a tue►sure to that society of demagogues who have conspired together to extend very where ruin and anarchy, and to overturn all that is most dz.n.r to the human race, religion, laws, and morality ! To yield to such deceivers would be to give victory and triumph to the villains and deceivers of all lands. It is the sacred duty of virtue to struggle against wickedness; and Russia, by arresting the insolence of rebellion and licentiousness, fulfils a duty to her own subjects, and to the whole civilized world." HAMBURG, APRIL 19. --HORSEN-HALIE, FOUR O'CLOCK.-The rise in the French Funds has produced no effect here, being considered as the result of gambling transactions. Discount 21 per cent. End of April. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent Anglo-Russian Loan 85% Hamburg-Russian Loan ... Polisli Bonds 92% Austrian Bank Shares 990 Now Austrian 4 per cent. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 24.—His Majesty's sloop Pearl, 20, was re-commissioned on Sunday for foreign service, by that gallint officer, Commander William Broughton, late of the Primrose. Her late crew on being paid off, subscribed the sum of 1/.Bs. in aid of the funds of the seaman's hospital ship in the river. His Majesty's gun brig Brisk was commissioned on Monday, for the Western Coast of Africa, by Lieut. Butterfield of his Majesty's ship Pallas. His Majesty's brig Manly, 12, Lient Wheatley, was paid off into ordinary on Tuesday, on which occasion the sum of 19s. 6d. was subscribed towards the fund of the seaman's hospital ship Grampus. His Majesty's ship Actaeon, Captain the Hon. F. W. Grey, (fitted for the Mediterranean) was paid advance on Tuesday, and sailed on Wednesday with sealed orders. She will proceed to her destination after performing the service therein directed. Com mander W. Smith (b), went out as passenger to supersede Acting Commander Berners, in the com mand of his Majesty's ship Philomel. His Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, 28, Capt. C. Graham, was paid off on Wednesday, and re-com missioned on the following day for foreign service by the same officer. The sum of 44 14s. 4d. was con tributed by her late crew towards defraying the ex pense of that excellent institution, the seaman's hospital ship in the river. His Majesty's ship Rattlesnake having been paid off and recommissioned, First Lieut. James J. C. Rivers, of the Woolwich Division of Royal Marines, with a detachment of that corps, disembarked yes-, terday, and joined the head-quarters at this, garrison, having been relieved by a similar detachment from head-quarters under the command of First Lieut. Charles W. Pearce. . _ His Majesty's ship Pearl, having been paid off and recommissioned, her detachment of Royal Marines was relieved yesterdny by a similar detachment from head-quarters. In Harbour—The Asia, St. Vincent, Wellesley, Royal George, Pallas, Pearl, Rattlesnake, Brisk, Recruit, Meteor steam-vessel, and Snipe tender. Mr. G. Western, Midshipman of his Majesty's ship Actaeon, was qualified for Lieutenant on being specially examined in navigation at the College, on Tuesday last. The squadron, under the command of Captain Phillips, consisting of his Majesty's ships Ariadne, Dispatch, Nautilus, and Savage, (which sailed from Spithead on Saturday last with sealed orders) passed by Plymouth on Sunday, on their way, it is be lieved, to reinfsice our squadron in the Tagus. His Majesty's ship Briton, 46, Capt. J. D. Maillamd, C. 8., and Childers, 18, Com. R. Deans, are now lying there. We understand the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have directed that the whole of the war rant officers in commission and in the Ordinary, shall be forthwi!h surveyed as to their fitness for sea or harbour service, and that those who are found in capacitated for either, will be superannuated. We allude to gunners, boatswains, and carpenters. The Prince Regtrit, transport, Lieut. C. Bin stead, agent, is fitting at Deptford for the convey ance of two companies of the Royal Artillery for Quebec and Halifax. One company will embark from Woolwich, and the other from Cork. She is expected to sail about the end of next week. A small detachment of the 85th regiment is or dtred to embark from Plymouth, on board his Ma jesty's ship St. Vincent, for the Mediterranean, under the o'.arge of Ensign Ramsay, to join their regiment at Corfu. Orders having been received here on Wednesday morning last, to embark, with as little delay as pos •ible, on hoard his Majesty's ship Samarang, for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a detachment of Royal Ma rines, consisting of one captain, three subalterns, and ninety-four non-commissioned officers and privates; in the short space of little more than an hour, the men were formed on the parade, in light marching order, ready for embarkation. The officers selected for the service are, Brevet Major Thomas Mitchell, First Lieut. George Griffin, and Second Lieute nants Edward Rea and John Mitchell. The de tacilment was conveyed by the Meteor, steamer on board the Samarang, which ship immediately got under weigh for Newcastle, and was towed a con siderable distance by the Meteor. This force is des tined to be landed at that place in aid of the civil authorities, should it be found ne2essary to call in their assistance. The extraordinary, and we believe unexampled promptitude with which these men were got ready and embarked, is a proof of the very efficient state of discipline of this gallant corps, and reflects gratt credit on the Colonel commandant, and officers under his orders. Despatches have been received at the Admiralty from Commodore John Hayes, on the coast of Africa, speaking in highly favourable terms of the beneficial effects of Harris's lightning conductors, which had been lately exemplified in a very strong and conclusive manner. H. M. S. Dryad, during a cruise, just previously to the 13th of February last, off the coast of Africa, experienced frequent storms accompanied by very severe lightning ; but on one occasion, she was visited by a tornado, and a most violent storm of thunder and lightning, and while standing on the quarter-deck, during a very vivid flash, one of the officers distinctly saw the light ning run down the conductor of the foremast, and the officer at the forecastle, at the sime time, heard a phizzing noise, resembling that of boiling water ; this noise was also heard by many others. A few minutes after, several of the officers were standing abaft, and they saw another flash pass down the conductor of the mizen-mast, with the same kind ( , fplizzin g no i se . Thi s i s t h e ki n d o f testimony themust which i m st ust carry conviction to the minds of even prejudiced, and we feel satisfied , uch und en i a bl e proofs of the ut ' ility of this very ex cellent invention, many years will not pass over our heads, before every ship in his will be provided.with one of Harris's service s lightning con ductors. TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF SURREY. GENTLEMEN AND BROTHER FR!SEHOLDERS, THE Dissolution of Parliament has taken place; and I immediately renew the offer of my services on being called to surrender that trust which you so generously placed in my hands. Reviewing the past Session, I can honestly declare that every vote I have given and every word I have spoken in the House of Commons during that short period, have been in accordance with the principles I professed on the hust tinge, which I cherish as strongly as ever. If you deem me still worthy of your confidence, I will use my best efforts to deserve it. If you return me again as your Representative, I will endeavour to justify y our choice. I gm!l continue to be the advocate of Peace, Retrench ment, Reform, and the Abolition of Colonial Slavery —to assist in promoting, by every means in my power, your local interests—and to give my cordial support to that measure which, by establishing a just and free representa tion of the people, will prove equally the safeguard of the prerogatives of the Crown and of the liberties of the subject. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With unfeigned respect, your faithful and devoted servant, JOHN IVATT BRISCOE. 19, Edward's-street, Portman-square, April 23, 1831. Mr. Bri.coe's Committee sit daily at the Half-Moon, High-street, Borough. TO THE GENTRY, CLERGY, AND FREEHOL DERS OF THE COUNTY OF DERBY. GENTLEMEN, THE dissolution of the late Parliament has been made with the express view of ascertaining the sense of the country as to that grand measure of Re fofni proposed by his Majesty's Ministers. The sense of this county has already been declared in a manner not to be mistaken, by the resolutions passed at a recent public meeting—resolutions alike honourable to yourselves and encouraging to the friends of Reform. Hoping and believing as I do, that you have seen no reason to alter your opinion upon that measure of just and enlight ened policy, -I have, in compliance with the wishes of nu merous friends determined to offer myself to your choice, as the organ of your opinion in Parliament; assuring you that should I be called by your favour to that high ho nour, no effort shall be wanting on my part to merit the continuance of your confidence and esteem. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient faithful Servant, GEORGE JOHN VERNON. London, April2s, 1831. TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF MIDDLESEX. GENTLEXIEN, HIS Majesty having been pleased to dis solve Parliament, fur the purpose, as his gracious Speech informs us, of ascertaining the sense of his people on the expediency of making such changes as circum stances may appear to require in the Representation—you will answer this appeal by electing such persons to repre sent you in the ensuing Parliament, as to you shall seem fittest, to support the views you entertain on this all important subject. His Majesty also expresses a hope that the early atten tion of tie new Parliament will be applied to the intro duction of a strict Economy into every branch of the pub lic service. My opinions on these two vital questions—Reform and Economy—were known to you, Gentlemen, at the time you did me the honour to elect me one of your Represen tatives ; and I conclude, therefore, were such as then met with your approbation. My subsequent conduct in Parliament has been governed by the same principles. I have supported, to the utmost of my power, the Reform Bill of his Majesty's Ministers ; I have endeavoured to enforce Economy in every practicable way : I have given, I hope, in all matters relating to the business of the County the proper degree of attention, and gratified shall I be to find that these endeavours have been conformable to your wishes. I again tender you my services to represent your great and populous County in the new Parliament ; and, should you think proper to honour me with a renewal of your confidence, I will strenuously exert myself to promote the general interests of the country ; and, above all, that great measure of Parliamentary Reform, to which his Majesty has directed our special attention. I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient humble servant, JOSEPH HUME. Bryanstone-square, April 25, 1831. To the INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of HERTFORD. GENTLEMEN, MOST sincerely do I congratulate you, that our gracious, beloved, and patriotic King has this day Dissolved the Parliament, which no doubt last year you were led to believe would represent your feelings, would support your rights, and would protect your privi leges ; but which I assert, and you to your sorrow must have found, has this year resisted your petitions, denied your just claims, and sacrificed your most sacred rights and privileges, to the sorded and selfish views of a borough mongering faction. His Majesty's Ministers, anxious to meet your wishes and steady to their pledges, produced a measure of Par liamentary Reform, which by extending your rights,—by maintaining your privileges—and by giving additional stability to the Throne and all the valued institutions of the country, bad so gained your affections se*4 support, that it tnust have passed into a law had not die - numerous and self-interested votes of the rotten borough proprietors, or their nominees, prevailed over reason and the voices of the true representatives of the people. Thanks, however, to the most judicious and constitu tional exercise of the Prerogative of the Crown, that Parliament exists no longer; and therefore you, toge ther with the whole people of England, are offered this early opportunity of selecting other representatives in the room of those who havii betrayed or disappointed you. A patriot King calls upon you to rany.round his Throne; a Reforming and an honest Ministry claims your confi dence and support, to enable them to carry into effect that glorious measure of redemption and salvation to the country, which you have so fearlessly applauded and so universally approved. Therefore, wherever the people have an opportunity of exercising their elective franchise, heedless of the threats of Peers, regardless of the intimidations of those who ought to have no controul, and on this occasion can have no legel controul over them, I hope, like you, they will endeavour to return to Parliament only those who will pledge them selves to this Ministerial plan of real, efficient, and constitu tional Reform, which both the safety of your King, and the peace and happiness of your country, every reflecting and honest man admits to require. In pursuance of pledges I have so often given you, I offer myself as a Candidate for the honour of again representing you in Parliament, relying with confidence upon your kind support, knowing, as I do, that I never can forfeit it so long as I adhere to those principles of constitutional liberty with which I commenced my political career, and with which I hope to end it. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient *and faithful servant, THOMAS S. DUNCOMBE. Queen-street, April 23, 1831. PRICES OF STOCKS TIM Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent.C,ons. ...79 9 3Y6 per Cent. Ditto Red B7 IA New 34per Cent BB U t 3 per Cent Ann. 1'726. - 4 per Cent. 1K26 91% Bank Long Ann to expire Jan 5,186 n 16 7-15 1 ,4 Oct. 10, 1859 l6 5-16 Jan. 5, 1860 l6 11-16 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. IN consequence of the unprecedented demand for CARPENTER'S POLITICAL GUARDIAN, of Friday evening last, a Fourth Edition is now ready, comprising an analysis of the division on Gen. Gascoyne's motion, proceedings in both Houses on the day of the pro rogation, and a large quantity of original and selected matter on all the topics of the day. The size of the news papers, price only 4d. The names of the Members who voted on General Gascoyne's motion, with the King's Speech, and proceed ings in both Houses, neatly printed on a folio sheet for perpetual reference, price Id. or 58. per hundred, for dis tribution. _ _ °nice, 21, Paternoster-row, and sold by all newsmen and booksellers. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Messager des Chambres of Saturday.) "PARIS, APRIL 22.—The electoral law not baying ►'een published 01 the 12th, the time which it fixes for the making out of the lists has alone given occasion to the or dinance proroguing the Chambers. The ordinance of dis solution announcing the convocation of the electoral colleges could not take place, and consequently will not take place. till between the 12th and 15th of June. " The Moniteur of to-day publishes, in its official part, the new electoral law, which fills 13 columns. _ " The non-official part of the Moniteur contains a de fence of the Minister of Finances in contracting for the loan at the minimum first fixed, which conduct is attacked by the Journal du Commerce and other papers as illegal, subversive of all principles and all guarantees in ecclesias tical matters, and contrary to the interest of the state. The Moniteur shows, that all the legal formalities were strictly observed, and that there was no reason to expect any better terms. " The Austrian Observer of the 13th inst., which we have received by express, contains the following ar ticle : "Field-Marshal Geippert has just given orders for the retreat of the Austrian troops, by virtue of which, after having left a garrison at Ancona, they will retire from Pisaro, by way of Rimini, Forli, and Imola, to Bologna. " A letter from Turin, of the 16th of April, says.- " His Majesty is still in a deplyr,ble state ; there is scarcely any hope remaining. He has continual attacks of fever. His Royal Highness the Prince of Carignan passes a great part of his time by the bed-side of the au gust patient. The King shows his Royal Highness the greatest confidence and affection. Piedmont and Geneva are, happily, tranquil. " The Madrid Gazette, announcing the capital pu nishment of the bookseller Mijar, who was executed to day (11th of April), adds, that all those who write to foreign countries accounts of acts of vengeance and op pression, which nobody has suffered, and misrepresent the disposition, the desire, and the power of the Spanish mo narchy, merit a similar fate." FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS APRIL 22.-Five per Cents., 87f. 87f. 20c. 30c. 35c. 25c. Rif. 90 c. 95c. 87f. RV. 90c. 95c. 87f. 10c. 87f. 86f. 70c. 90c. 87f. 87f. sc. 87f.; Loan of 1831, 86f. 90c ; Four and a Half per Cents., 79f.; Four per Cents., 7'2f.; Three per Cents., 58f. 60c. 90c. 95c. 85c. 70c. 60f. 80c. 75c. 85c. 58f. 80c. 85c. 80c. 75c.; Bank Stock, 1,495 f. ; Rente de Naples, 64f. 63E 75c. 64f. 63f. 75c. ; Rente d'Espagne, 12; Royal Spanish Loan, 654 65 ; Rente Per- V a u n e , lle ,y7 d s l:s' 4;17 e, E 4 x f c li n g e Exchange 46 0 n London, r''' orit 4 m 46 on 46 tll 4 paper, 256. 10c.; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 95c.-fours Juthentique. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 2R.-Five per Cents., t6f. 80c. 95c. 87f. 86f. 90c. 87f. 10c. 86f. 9:)c. 87f. 86f. 90c. 80c. 90c. 80c. 75c. 65c. 75c. 85c. 70c. 60c. 70c. 65c. 70c. • New Loan, 1831, 86f. 90c, ; Three per Cents, 58f. 75c. 65c. 60c. 40c. 55c. 50c. 60c. 70c. 65c. 60c.; Bank Actions, 1,4806 ; Rente de Naples, 64f. 64f. 25c. 15c. 10c. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 12M 3l ; Royal Spanish Loan, 65; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 46 46 1 1 4 47 46% 47 47g M %; Haytian Loan, 275 f. Exchange on London- One month, paper, 25G 10c. • money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c.; money, 24f. 95c. DAT AT ONK O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock ...... ..... '206% Ditto Bonds -1 pm. par South Sea Stock 877 Old Annu i ties ... . . -- New Ditto - 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 6 7 pm. Ditto 500... 6 8 6pm 'Ditto Small «..... 7 9 6 pm. Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised rm. Bank for Account Account India for Account ... Cons. for May 96 7814 PRICES OF TORNIO:I FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONI O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds 5B Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres 80nd5......... Portuguese Bonds — Chillan Bonds —Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds - 'Ditto, New — Ditto, 1824 Danish ....... ................. ... Spanish, 1821 - Greek Bonds — I 1823 — Ditto, 1825 — French Renter, sp. c. —l. .....7. Guatimala. . —-- Exchange —f. —c. Mexican Bonds Uitto, 1825 !-- 3 per cent.... —f. --. Exchange ..... —'. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilianllmp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O Ditto National l5 Protector Insurance Comp. General Steam Navigation Co. l3 23% 24 £1 8 6 614 THE HOLY LAND. Dedicated, by express Permission, to the King. This day was pub:ished, in Two Vols. Svo. with nume rous splendid Engravings, 30s. hoards, TRAVELS in the HOLY LAND, and various other Countries, including the TRACK of the APOSTLE PAUL. By WILLIAM RAE WILSON, Esq. F.A.S. Author of " Travels iu Poland, Russia, anti Finland ;" also, in " Norway, Sweden, and Denmark." This is a most useful work for Ministers of Religion, in which are Letters to the Author from Foreign Sovereigns on the Protestant Faith; with a minute description of the Convent of La Trappe, which he visited, and i❑ which so many Englishmen of distinction have assumed the cha racter of a monk. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. •-e."04',74 LAM LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1831. As the great business of the Legislature is now for a time at an end, it may not he deemed irrele vant if we take a hasty survey of the merits of the leaders of the two contending parties. The task, we arc aware, is far from a novel one ; nevertheless, it is not without its use, as it will tend still further to open the eyes of the public to the characters and motives of those who oppose, and those who advo cate, Reform. We commence with Sir R. PEEL. Brought up in the High Tory School, with principles formed, nurtured, and matured under a system now fast pass ing away, the object of this statesman in setting his face against Reform is evident. It is to perpe tuate the dynasty under which he has risen to great ness, which is closely identified with himself, and whose downfall will be the signal of his own. He opposes Reform less from choice than from neces sity. He can only support Ministers by discarding all his old prejudices, and giving the lie direct to all his political tenets. This is a dangerous experi• ment to venture upon ; Sir ROBERT well knows that it is so ; and will be fn no hurry to play the Catholic question game over again. To be con sistent, he must persevere in his opposition to Re form ; to retain the confidence of his party, he must still keep up the stale clamour of revolution. If he waver but an instant he is lost. The Ultras wil l never again trust a leader who deserts them in the hour of peril ; the country will never pin its faith on a statesman who commences his political education in a new school, at the mature age of forty-seven A venerable school-boy is as much out of his element in St. Stephen's as at Harrow. The necessities of the age demand new men and new measures. The rust must be wiped off the shield of the Constitution. All those who, in the discharge of tl,eir public duties, have regarded the past rather than the present or the future ; who have kept their eyes fixed ors the East, when the sun was already low in the West ; who have steadily set their faces against improvement ; w h o have legislated for the few, not the man y ; who have preferred system to expe diency ; who, in their zeal for the borough mongers, have overlooked the people;—all these must go. Sir ROBERT PEEL is one of these, inter rnille millesimus ; therefore lie must go. Mr. GOUL BURS is another, and he too must evapot we, For t h e same reason Mr. HORACE TWISS must be ex tinguished ; Mr. CROKER gird up his loins and flee; Mr. DawsoN take up his staff and walk. But it is of the former of these astute statesmen that we would here more particularly speak. His con dition is peculiarly pitiable. Having been for years raised above his level, he is now descending to it. The people have detected the false coin which so long passed current for gold. They have found out that Sir R. PEEL, though a pompous orator, is but a shallow statesman ; that he has hitherto been great solely because he had none to oppose him ; success ful, solely because his party for years had every thing their own way. The Ultras being no longer in the ascendant, where now is Sir R. PEEL ? What has become of all that astounding sagacity which used to convulse the Courier and electrify the NewTinies? Where is the influence arising from the superior in tellect of the individual, that should support him in this crisis ? He has it not. The power of the man himself was always limited; it was his party tkat gave him authority and kept him afloat. As a poli tician, Sir ROBERT is the sublime of common-place. The tradesman predominates in all he says or does. His rhetoric smells not of the lamp, but the ledger. He talks of revolution—a gigantic theme in the hands of a pigmy—as if it were merely a matter of pounds, shillings, a►►d pence; of Reform, as if it were a question of bankruptcy. But his day is gone by, and he knows it. Hence the secret of his ravings against the Press; of his avowed indif ference to place; of his last frantic declaration in the House, that it was " no longer an object of pride to hold a high official situation." With llr. GOULBURN — poor dear Mr. GOVL BURN !—and his brethren in affliction, Messrs. DAw- SON, CROKER, TWISS, BANKES, and Co., we shall, as a matter of course, make short work. They are anti-Reformers : first, from a limited capacity, which will not allow them to comprehend the bearings of a great question ; secondly, from a humiliating con viction that their services are net required by their opponents. Sir J. SCARLETT is in the same pre dicament. As a lawyer, he may still win golden opinions from his clients; still delight the Bench and convince the Jury; but as a senator his day is over. Whether for or against Reform, his opinion has not the slightest weight. The oracle of the King's Bench is a mere Nobody in Saint Stephen's, and actually does more harm to the cause which he advocates, than to that which he espouses. In one word, he is the Paria of the political world. Look now to the other side. Observe the vast array of talent that adorns the ranks of the Re formers. The first name in our thoughts, in every one's thoughts, iS BROUGHAM, with whom the age has scarcely yet come up, though it has already overtaken and shot a-head of Sir R. -PEEL. The cause of Reform owes more to our myriad-minded Chancellor than to any man or party that ever existed. By his speeches in the Senate, by his writings, by the high moral influence of his ex_ ample, he has tutored, disciplined, and prepared the minds of the people for the important privileges now. about to be conferred on them. Since the commencement of his Herculean labours in the cause of education, one generation has passed away and another sprung:up, enlightened by his precepts, influenced by his example, imbued, more or less, with a portion of his own liberal spirit. Lord BROUGHAM, although a Peer, is essentially, and in the strictest sense of the term, a great man. He appreciates the character of the age, for the very reason that it has been mainly formed by himself; knows the exact point to which Reform should extend ; how far it is favourable, bow far injurious, to the Constitution. But he is a rash theorist, say the Ultras ! True, so he is, if by rash ness is implied a fixed determination to cut up, root and branch, the unconstitutional power of the Boroughtnongers ; to take special care that a lordly, lazy, conceited pensioner, shall no longer squeeze the last farthing out of the pockets of suffering clients; and that fiends in human shape, whether Reverend or otherwise, shall no longer mangle the bodies of helpless men and still more helpless women. If this be rashness, Lord BROUGHAM is rash, and GOD grant—in mercy to his country,in mercy to the interests of humanity—that he may long continue so!—Whe ther viewed as statesman, philosopher, or lawyer— for surely law implies something more intellectual, more elevated, than a mere knowledge of techni calities—we look on Lord SnouGuast as the first man of the age. The founder of the London Uni versity—the grand prop and pillar of the Mechanics' Institute—the unwearied promoter of every literary Institution throughout the kingdom—the generous friend of all slaves, whether Enesh or African— the Reformer of the Augean Stables of the Law ; ;— the claims of this eminent man on his country, on the human race, are such as can never be forgotten. To add, if possible, to these claims, he is now taking a foremost part in a sweeping Reform of the Con stitution ; the schoolmaster which he has already sent abroad, being one of his most active agents on the occasion. To Lord GREY, as another advocate of Reform, indeed, us its acknowledged head, nearly equal praise is due. This statesman possesses the rare merit of having passed a long life, spent for the most part in the public service, unsullied by a single political error. From the first, down to the present hour of his course, he has been consistent in his principles, manly and uncompromising in asserting them. He has never vacillated for a moment. Place, if earned by the sacrifice of opinion, has had no charms for him. Where others hesitated, he was firm; where others trembled, he knew not fear. Distinguished for the powers of his intellect, even in those days when the eloquence of BURKE, PITT, Fox, WYNDIIAM, SHERIDAN, rendered the House of Commons the first assembly in the world, be is now of course, with the sole exception of BROUGHAM, the fist orator of his age. He is now a giant among pigmies, as he was before a giant among giants. Of Lord J. RUSSELL, who renews in his own person the old glories and virtues of the RUSSELL family ; of ALTHORP, the manly, the sincere, the liberal; of HAWKINS, whose latest, and Nfe believe whose first effort, in the House of Commons, entitles him to rank among the foremost of our liberal speakers, and one of whose terse arguments is worth volumes of Sir R. PEEL'S diluted fustian; of TENNI"- SON ; of HOBHOUSE ; of JEFFREY; of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, whose patriotic eloquence is the " pure well of English undefiled ;"—of all these great men we shall merely say, that the public have, in their zealous adoption of the cause, a guarantee that Reform must a nd will be carried; and that when carried, it will be the regeneration of the country. Electors of the United Kingdom, such are your friends, such your foes. Now make your choice. It rests with you, and you alone. Choose whether you will have a return of the old system of pecula tion and corruption ; of sinecures and pension lists ; of PEEL and the boroughmongering faction, the avowed advocates of CHARLES the Tenth and his ordinances ; or commence a new :era of freedom, civi lization, and universal improvement. Of one fact you may be convinced. If PEEL and the borough mongers return to power, you are slaves; if Earl GREY and the Reformers continue in the ascend. ant, you are free. This is strong language, but it is rue ; aye, true to the very letter ; true as the treach ery of the man HUNT; true as the infamous ratting of Sir ROBERT WILSON. The boroughmongers, those deadly foes to Eng land and her suns, v ho have for so long a period bat tened on the vitals of the State, feeling they are in their last extremity, have conspired—have made a stock purse, determined to sacrifice a large por r ion of the plunder they have wrung from the people, in the hope of being thereby enabled once more to return themselves, or their creatures, to the Legislature, that they may again defeat the great measure of Reform, when they would reck lessly reimburse themselves for the cost of the i i unrighteous sacrifice, with usurious interest—. from . the public purse. Let them BEIVAIIE i —.. they have hitherto with impunity defied the law; but the law forbids Peers to interfere in the elec tion of Members to the Commons' .House of Par liament, and they will find even a ducal coronet is no protection against the consequences of its violation. The cause of Reform, however, in despite of their manceuvres, will proceed triumphantly— wherever the public have a voice, the enemies of Reform, quail and tremble, and already shrink from the contest. Sir ROBERT WILSON, for Southwark, Mr. TREVOR, for Carmarthenshire, Admiral SOTHE. RON, for Nottinghamshire, are among those who have retired. Even Scotland, with her nominal re presentation, will send a reinforcement of reformers. DUNDAS, it is said, retires from Edinburgh, and it is doubtful whether his son will be permitted to succeed him ; and our warm-hearted brethren in Ire land will not fail to do their duty by themselves and by the country. " When bad men conspire, good men should combine." Let the people unite in one common effoi tto defeat this vile conspiracy. Let every man who has a vote for county, city, or borough bestow that vote as if the fate of England depended on himself alone. Let no man be again returned, where the public have a voice, who has dared to oppose Reform, and no man returned who does not pledge himself to give that great measure his steady and unflinching support. Let every elector for every rot•en borough bear in mind, that the present is the last election at which the tyrants who have domineered over and instilled them, will possess that privilege,—let the voters for these boroughs set their late masters at defiance,—return patriot candidates,---and thus nobly lend their aid to the salvation and liberation of England from the sway of the faction by whom she has been so long insulted and oppressed. Men of Stamford,—Men of Newark,—the eyes of England are upon you,—you proudly occupy the front ground,—yours is the post of honour,—you have resolved by anticipation to free yourselves from the disgraceful. bondage in which you have so long been held, and will nobly prove what Britons can achieve, under the most adverse circumstances, when determined to be free. But, in the great struggle, let every friend of free dom and Reform, observe and support good order, and preserve the public peace. The maniac and del moniac faction of the boroughmongers—if they can not by their gold return themselves and their crea tures to Parliament, will not scruple, in the bitter agony of a just disappointment, to gratify malevo lence, or indulge revenge,—to use it as the means of exciting riot and disturbance, as their only hope of injuring the cause of Reform, and creating an excuse for libelling its supporters. Again, we say, let every lover of his country and his KlNG,—and no Mo narch that ever swayed the British sceptre was so well entitled to his people's love,—let every friend of Reform instantly denounce the boroughmongers and their hirelings, wherever they attempt to create riot or disturbance, for assuredly none other will attempt to do so. Our readers will find, in another column, in the list of our advertisements, a spirited and appropriate address from Lord ALTHORP to the electors of Nor thamptonshire. Another address also appears from the Hon. G. VERNON to the electors of Derbyshire, who announces himself,- in the most liberal and de cided ternis, as the sworn friend to Reform. As this.gentleman opposes himself to the claims of Mi:- MUNDAY, the equivocal advocate of the Reform Bill, he cannot but be successful. Every good every reflecting—every patriotic man will support , him. The friends of Reform must countenance. no trimmers; and Mr. VERNON is a reformer to the back-bone. He is worthy of his illustrious colleague,' a scion of the patriotic house of CAVENDISH. A public illumination will take place to night throughout the metropolis. The inhabitants have had little time to make their preparations; but we have no doubt that they will be suitable to the joy ful occasion. Mr. O'CONNELL and his son, Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL, left town, this morning, for Ireland. Several hundred persons assembled round their re• sidence in Bridge-street, Westminster, and enthusi astically cheered them as they proceeded in their travelling chariot along Parliament-street. By the latest arrivals from France, we hear that all is quiet at Paris, and that the intelligence of the defeat of the Reform Bill had produced a great sen sation in that capital. From Poland nothing new has arrived. The following are extracts from Dutch and Ger man Papers received this morning : WARSAW, Aran, 14.—0 n the 10th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the Russians burnt all the pontoons which they had prepared at Tyrzen, opposite to Krziernice. Ge neral Andrychie had taken up a position near Wengrow, with the newly-formed 20th regiment, under the command of Colonel Klimkiewicz, and two cannon. The Russians attacked them with a force thrice their number, and seven cannon, but after an action of five hours they were re pulsed. The small number of these young troops again repulsed the many en the following day. 160 more prisoners, among whom are many officers, have been brought into Warsaw. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is reported to have received information that General' Dwerneeki had obtained further advantages over General Kreutz, and taken from him eight pieces of cannon.— Field Marshal Dielfitsch leaves the banks of the Vistula and the mouth of the Wieprz. Persons versed in the art of war think that he may have two objects, either to retire to the Bug, and perhaps pass that river at the same time, covering his retreat with part of his corps, or to collect his forces in order to strike a blow against the Polish army in the Waiwodeship of Podlachia, and again to join the corps of the guards from which be was cat off. " Judges on these subjects may determine whether the object of Diebitsch may not be while the ardent Skrzynecki, animated by his success, goes farther and farther from Warsaw, to break through his narrow line of communica tion, to cut him off from the capital, and to effect the union of the Russian army, not in front of him, but in his rear. The following accounts seem to indicate the possibility of such an attempt, which, besides, is precisely the ma nzeuvre by which the Russian General ended the war against Turkey." It appears from the Warsaw Gazette that the Field Marshal has suddenly advanced from the banks of the Wieprz (beyond which river he was supposed to be re treating) to the great road from Warsaw to Siedlec. This important movement is plainly announced in the following. It is more and more confirmed that Field Marshal Diebitsch has returned with his principal force to Siennica. VIENNA, Aran.. 13.—From some accounts from the Polish frontiers, given by the Observer, it seems there is no truth in the report that 300 young men had totem- AA in arms near the convent of Poczajow. Great mortality is said to prevail in the garrison of Zarrosc, and also among the troops of General Kreutz. Dwernecki's consists of 18 squadrons, all old soldiers, 30 •o a squadron, and nine battalions of 840 each, all young ;non, so that the whole exceeds 6,000 men, without an i fillet y and train. AMSTERDAM, Aram 22.—The amount of subscription o the loan of 42 millions of florins, as far as hitherto :nown, is 13,471,200 florins. AMSTERDAM, APRIL "2., Actual Debt, t2y, per cent 3B to 38% Amort Syndic, 44 per cent. G 2 a to 63y¢ Ditto, (him, 3N, per cent. Exchange on London Two months ll 82 5-10 1 VIENNA, APRIL 11.-We received yesterday the most , itisfactory accounts from Paris, which leave no appre- tension of a the Alinistr, however, ha' are unfavour bitsch will h mitted befoi Bosnia is re APRIL to the 26t1 there in con Sultan had E tari, exhortii to have heel addressed to with Servia nople. Thy higher depa the Reis Eff schib Effenc have taken the regular tea. Its del The Coy in a letter accounts of the authorit to this suh letter from " We have province of progress. ' tion any lot ment o and whom the ] have a plau ceeded in el who was c countrymen son of Piet the country Fears are e vince, of wholly dev b3dy now a will interfei Four pei Bank St The Au Lebzettern Account is continua ing to pass unite with Creutz, an, by the g Russians al insurrectio Informa Pac, who already m organize t destined t Guard, wl The rec tended wit not make t the Itussi The numb Most of tl of Genera that of thi sian arm baggage. rals, and tately rett They certing Sol ately to fu The troop of Consta will act al The ac Luxemben It appe the Russi and the B put to de They NI Were pro( and are going to r We hal express fi does not 1 therefore steamer. which eh no doubt, defy all In the which lel at the tian money In the The t of the 24 and Sout tain any The fa Constant " The rived her ships of will Kiel known." The p state thi ported tt Dutch tr the affaii The pi burg say no use most pa also in g article. Thep state the Governr Come) 78i for money '7 In the Cons( Cons( Ditto Brazi Buena Chili, Colui La theatre MIRE I TA GLic folk:in/e l Niaeque take pla