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LEMBURG (GALLICIA), ithacn 6.—lt is generally re ported that by a new ordiwince of the Impel i.l Govern ment, our frontiers arc to be opened to all unarmed fugi tives from Poland. have, howeve proposed to bri' i sliall be rest, The typhus that prevailed here has nearly ceased; on the other hand, the cholera morbus spreads in the Bucko ' wina : the number of sick, however, in the places infected visibly decreases: VIENNA, MARCH 13.—The accounts from Italy have been taken advantage of by stock jobbers to produce a fall in the funds, alleging that the extension of military measures in Italy give reason to fear a great political crisis, and a zeneral war in Europe. The public, less timid, did not, however, suffer themselves to lie frightened, and the ac counts from Piedmont and Rome soon had a favourable effect on the funds. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1831. nce b e tween I s Bill of Eng land he second rceesia after the re null h ave risions, after shall nox inerd! I a first time. S PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. No. 12,023. PRICE 7D. ill. • ipl itli the Prin c pn the Pr WI; extension of I. • Stanl e y b roug h t i n t h e I r i s h R e f or m Bit last night. :eland th ere are no copy h o ld ers , an d the forty-shilling er° Were have be e n di s fran c hised. In other respects, 4 4 1 . 11 slight variation as to the years within which a lease i tni. u aell renewed, the county representation is to be the 47 as that o f E ng l an d. Th e town r e pr e s e nt a ti on , w hi c h kl t a still worse state than that of England, is to be - "wii ope n t o t h e res id ent occup i ers o f h ouses o f 101. a I Z' Belfast, Li mer i c k, W a t er ford, and Galway, are It," to have an additional representative, and an addi at,l, Member is also to be given to the University of j 4 41 0 11 us the ri g ht o f vot i ng , w hi c h is now confin e d to tt or scholars, being to be extended to all those who had 11 4 time been scholars, and had kept their name, or mB °o the list within six months of the time of vot ' kt ; The speech of the Right Honourable Gentle st., was distinguished for clearness. The occasion I t h I ° o tempting for gentlemen like Sir C. Wetherell, t 4 are not easily satisfied with their efforts, ro-• 'c passed over w i t h out anot h er a tt em pt aga i ns t th e !la nd —the of the Bill. Accordingly Sir Charles gave us O W " editi on o f t h e Art i c l es o f U n i on w i t h I re l an d an d —the danger of lopping off sixty-two Protestant ti o t etbers, a n d t h e crue l ty o f di s f ranc hi s i ng f u t ure genera hit' of pot-wallopers. Lord Althorp got rid of the ar iiltrkent from the proportion fixed at the Scotch Union, l t he Iri s h U n i on, wh i ch altere d i t; an d_ o b serve d fur '" that the arguments which hail been urged by the wsnourable and Learned Gentleman against Reform, t . t 4e pr ec i se l y s i m i lar to those urged aga i nst C athol i c Is it t k 4 ination, an d aga i nst th e i mprovemen t o f t h e S co ttish 11 1 4." Sir Robert Peel observed, that " whether ti es w as a revolutionary measure or not, he must confess 11 4 4 a measure which would produce very great changes, e t , °feet of which he did not, and could not know, nor W 4 1 , a tielpate ;" and he proceeded to point out a number 14 4 ° ,'Iections t o the details of the Reform as regarded Ire hil" The Lord Advocate made another speech, which 41 °4 praised.—)horning Chronicle. 4, 41 " questio n o f di s s o l u tion wa s ra i se d last night in the -4 of Lords by the Marquis of Londonderry, with the st„,°f eliciting what the intentions of his Majesty's Mi- Os were with regard to such a step. Earl Grey had ii;euted a petition in favour of the Ministerial plan of e ti a rtn from the freeholders of the county of Down, when l eith l44t quia of Londonderry made some loose statement h p - r espect t o t h e d egree i n w hi c h th e p erso ns signing 1... 11111 ed the opinion of the county, and then proceeded 1 / 4 0 11 e against the Reform Bill ; after which he observed, link W ould say a few words as to the course which Mi pi 44 had taken in reference to this measure. In the first k i t t e" they had made an undue use of the sacred name of e i , A , l aiesty, in order to influence the opinions of the com a,h-a'ity, and to induce them to sign the petitions. This le - tL ni ghly irregular, and calculated to do much mischief. lobo next place, they had thrown out threats of a disso k4.a° of Parliament, in case the measure failed, in order tel nit uence the votes. He did not mean to say that this 1441,.a.uthorised by the Noble Earl at the head of the Ad 4,..tstration ; but such a threat had been held out in tt :ther p l ace by persons connected with the Administra- J°. and lie was desirous to hear from the Noble Earl thedttlaration on the subject. In the next place, g le Y had said, that unless the measure was passed, tleall.Y could not continue in the Ministry nor carry on Ile tt Go vernenent, and that there would be no Ministry This was not fair, for they ought to allow the f,. o 4 ohre to at ind on its merits." These observations drew nt,,, 41 , Earl G rey an eloquent an d manly speech. After 4 1 ,,,10g to th e terms on which he accepted office, and it tt , Pr tg that a n i mproper use h a d b een ma d e of hi s Ma name, as " it mu s t b e n ot or i ous ,_ a cco rding to the kip aiples and practice of the Constitution, that the mea tioht h ad the sanct i on o f hi s M a j esty , w i t h ou t w h ose nuc lei- a nd authority it could have not been introduced by kV*, tvants," he proceeded to notice what had been said as sf dissoluti on . " The Noble Marquis says that threats di e have been thrown out, and he calls upon 7.ei t co o te.b naa d k e e ciaar u d o : i e ,, lar ; ation on the subject. I shall make but, at the same time, I have no itiltt to rn s ays that I consider myself completely co the hy and identified with the measure, and by this s t i t ta u t re I shall stand or fall. That in so complicated a % I ces formed upon such a large and extensive subject, ash t ul: may not h e - requ i re d to b e a l tere d, i s certa i n l y 114, toan I c a n un d erta k e to assert ; b ut this I will say, to e s far as d epen d s upon me, I w i ll suffer no alteration air! otade that w ill d etract from i ts ef fi c i ency. As an tii,to:l!t measur e I w ill stan d or f a ll b y i t, an d withou t tio t "9 out any th reat o f di sso l u ti on, I h ave no objec kit : 80 Y, that in order to support and carry into effect kti te je a sure, as an efficient measure, there are no means ktio„ ' " e d by the principles a n d p r a c ti ce of the Constt %ie cold by a devoted sense of public duty, from the ,:ent of which I will shrink.—Hear, hear.) kts,, tt ner I shall not say on that s ub ject." This a°diL ir aees no doubt of dissolution, should the Bill be A tt , i sg, L io any es sen ti a l respec t ; but it still leaves where 1 4' 6 "le question, w h e th er , i n the anticipation of such Ss e l :tion, a dissolution may nzt take place before the a e 4; the House have again actually been taken. That ato °f th e c h aracter of the Bill b e i ng materially altered, e , a uts e l ' at i° l l would take place, follows as a matter of tat from Ministers having made an efficient Reform MatZ l dition o f t h e i r acceptance o f o ffi ce . B ut t h e 14 4,7, 4 of Londonderry charged Ministers with having 00 0 4 f .„ 1 '15 the measure was passed, they could not carry ` l vernm e nt, and that there would be no Mi t°,qt Q 1 1." How can there be a Ministry opposed '"ho 1 41 • 1 a ?--" There are persons here (said Earl Grey) f! er th:as well a s I do the state of public opinion all -ta r of cot ' ai ttrYs and I say in their presence, and without 44 contradiction, that there never was a public mea entillrnilitQygedii s before, which so nearly united the sentiments suesUuntry in ts favour. The general voice of the hea pronounced loudly and deservedly for "lit few very few, comparatively speaking—have hiltn;v't against it." Even the Duke of Wellington ef!to t hat the mea s ure generally was approved c he observed "be could see no reason what titiu t ;or th e change except that it was to gratify indi -I,stai C ,, nsider s bl e number of individuals certainly-7 ,Iti ta a r the maj or i ty o f i n di v id ua l s , an d th a t w a s no !1,0- ett,,..!"on for suc h an i m p or t a nt change." Prince , 11 - 7 1 ch and the Emperor Nicholas, probably, concur ttqGrace in thinking that the opinions of the go -14,1-" w ith respe c t t o t h e i r G overnmen t ar e the very last t ° he takers into account; but Earl Grey and his V~ llea gues did not derive their principles from the Congress 4" " f h d h .or front t-e camp, an tey may be excused Istit;oLewing the opinions of the governed of some con ;II," in determining the course of Government. Even "itl N •a ces at the Manchester dinner, declared that he k ° illy to carry on the Government of the country skits he gav e sat i s f act i on to t h ose , o f whom the ma t 1 1 ; -re now fav oura bl e to t h e pro p os ed Reform. With t'Othi:t ad miration, t h ere f ore, o f an unre formed British L ut wns lie has declared, that as the majority differ '°'toss e " lt ° , he oug h t necessar il y to b e e x c lud e d from p s, at,4l Who th en d ares to say, that without Reform he seel is . Undertake to form a Ministry ? Sir Robert gtes,. not the man • for thought in his heart he dis a4 Reform much ' as the Duke of Wellington, and ° the E as t R et f or d b us i ness w h at l engt h s h e was kt hd r rl i t , to go i n the cause of corruption, he now sees the : 4111 4 1 ,,!' e Y of being a bit an d bit R e f ormer . B u t this Lte en I°N extorted from the friends of corruption and tletidlia°f lleforin, by the ernvietion of the impossibility nag cut against the opinions so decidedly expressed eatme CC •11,, Or —to use the forcible language of 4(16 e Y , "seta nobody, and only sow the seeds of die ich,sitpcutrof itert._t_t.hrougYhout the: nation ;" and no man pos setededi gram of common sense would, with the nation a ltertl against them, think of undertaking to form uttstry. s ., Ith or If Earl Grey is determined to stand or Vate N e measure, the nation, which has so universally til4l, Siof that measure, will most assuredly stand by P° ri ir Robert Peel will gain no more credit for his t t t :td: t h e e al assent to the necessity of Reform, in order to t aati forin nugatory,than Mr. Herries for his deter- Na t a ° to t %te t preserve the preponderance of the colonial Ili tt ettla ted L ug against an alteration of the timber duties, t °Ptoduce sat effect, which had been adopted lol t Wnee, would have been proposed, had he remained 4 , 1 4 'l4 O T he nation loathes the arts of these tricksters, tits ee °n no o ne , and only gain so much by their i htl e n ' o ," to add t o ' the persuasion of the necessity h te 4 fur lr ti s g t hem. The Marquis of Lontlonderry is mare it "e . honestly te ll s us that he hates the Reform, S l to the dinaini s h corrupt i on . T o gove rn, accord t is na°ohle Marquis, is to plunder, and that Govern e t ush, ta rany tho ug h t b y hi m the b est, w hi c h leaves hweliet. access to th e p oc k ets of t h e peop l e. " Re" ei n , t (he sa id) h a d b een carried too far, and th e the Crown (that is, the power of those who speaking• others 0001 ID' rivate n f bin° w cre, - t ye s received by three Ye as ' peti )resenteu 1 ! .; re d ich be conga .opte. to t he testimonY a pd he N o rther° extrernelY A o ec i , to their await freeV iderl 1 the oo ut rson o, io . s idef lid not c w -„„ idere of the freeho.. tj of resPe' barte nti in Dow t be l , et it ini r io iderel ,000 free red, ' taken a s e rct be 1 t h e re , P e Aft ad of hi' the however, or+ to this loge, 1 mode' s " or where t he e r ; . y - no t disco . s uffrage A° ou o" ,sed, 4 our o.c.b be tisery wi ll ogre ted tha t , ;it tie y his l'l g T be . .1 had receiv i c - bi ta 'gland ha" • d 'g • to° he I n u jin d been which . 4- f the unworthy °pot Gorel li ed revolutioox. was O t At ui• h o wever+ — ie d Aristocr oc t i ti tloe tb o [e belie ve 'oes+ Ind then - to ild be eb al t, e l d be Crown e• °°°. ~onio a• ar e, OforPl DP iir du i .t° v. ..- - blC' 2 JO- , of Be l° zo , J. Yl u o n fq; ~ , ,, ,gre , r, , , p1i 0, it y. n e, tbeor :sr' i ebo ~,t e r of do . toil;ht , 2 .. il.. it S oDr .'fir'. 00, 01. `~~j,..... ~'~ vote money nominally for the Crown, to be shared by themselves) was in the (Nurse of !Bost material diminu - tion." To expend only as much of the money of the people as is necessary for the service of the State, is cut ting up the interests of the country by the roots—that is, the interests of those who subsist on public plunder. They, however, who say this, may he fool-hardy men, but they are not hypocrites. The Bill, we will concede to the Duke of Wellington, " does make a complete alteration in all the existing interests of the country," for it will protect the interests of the great majority of those possessed of property, and curtail the interests of those who wish to live at the expence of other people. The Horse Patrol which put down highwaymen, made in like manner a great alteration in the existing interests of the people of this metropolis. Lord Grry proposes the measure, be cause his notions as to the interests most entitled to pro tection, differ from the notions of the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of Londonderry. " The Noble Marquis (said his Lordship) has said that he sup poses that I have too great a regard for my order—a regard which at one time was imputed to be almost as a crime—to desire to promote any revolutionary measure. I have supported, and will support that order, because I think that it is necessary to the preservation of the Constitution that it should exist. lam by station, and still more by disposition and habit, a member of the aristocracy. But I support it as an order, only because it is a ne cessary order in the State, because it is a necessary link between the Crown and the people, and because its existence contributes to the good of the community. Whenever the Aristocracy cease to be this, then lam no longer a Member of the Aristocracy. But while it continues to be this, and while its rights and privileges are conducive to-the preservation of the rights and privileges of all, I repeat that I am ready to stand or fall by it. It is to support and preserve that order that I have taken from them by this measure a power which renders them odious to the people, and restored to them the means of cultivating a good under standing with the people, and of satisfactorily discharging those public trusts for which their privileges were given to tnem." This is plain and manly. To pronounce of a measure of Reform, which merely enables the possessors of property to name those who are to have the power of taxing them, that it is calculated to destroy the aristocracy, is to pro nounce the strongest possible libel on the aristocracy, for it is saying that the aristocracy can only exist by possessing an irresponsible power over the properties of the whole nation. If we must choose between the welfare of the aristocracy and the welfare of the nation, the choice m be made without difficulty. But Lord Grey wishes to prove that the interests of his order are best consulted by placing them in harmony with the Interests of the people, and by declaring that the aristocracy ought not to exist a moment longer than it was found conducive to the wel fare of the community.—Morning Chronicle. If peculiar crises of great excitement produce great crimes and vast aberrations from moral rectitude, they do no less afford illustrious examples of disinterestedness and virtue. The Reform Bill has produced actions propor tioned to its magnitude ; for as there has been most dis gusting baseness in the conduct of many of its oppotutts, so have there been instances of the most noble self-sacri fica, and generous indifference to private interest, in seve ral of the supporters of the Bill. We have spoken of the manner in which various Members have voted for a mea sure by which they must be deprived of an interest which had either been derived to them from their ancestors, or been the purchase of their own money, on the public con fidence that the boroughmongering system must continue. Sir Sandford Graham, the Dukes of Norfolk and Devon shire, Lord Cleveland, Lord Grosvenor, Lord Radnor, Mr. J. Smith, and others, have been mentioned, and to this list must be added the name of Mr. William Russell, the representative of the county of Durham, who generously gives up four Members by the proposed Bill, which he supports with all his strength—two for Saltash, in Cornwall, and two mote for Bletchingley. At what a time are we now at length happily arrived, when we can speak as boldly and freely of the pur chase, and sale, and proprietorship, and bribery of bo roughs, as of the less knavish proceedings of a police-office. To suppose that these things can continue, now that the Press can expose them at will, is madness. And what a state of slavery was that which prevented, on the pain of imprisonment, all mention of illegal acts, which every man knew to exist. People talk of intimidation, indeed'. Was there no intimidation in silencing Britons to the grossest invasion of their rights, which they saw passing daily before their eyes? Lord Grey's speech last night, in the House of Lords, was a specimen of manly elo quence, and a model of plain dealing with his political antagonists and the country. We beg particular attention to two passages. In the first he clearly demonstrates the principle on which our noble-hearted Sovereign accepted the services of his new Ministers : When the situation which he now filled was offered to him— under circumstances which, he conceived, made it his duty not to decline the proposal—by his Gracious Sovereign, in a manner which would command his respect, gratitude, arnhaffection, as long as he lived, he strongly urged to his SovefEign—and his services were accepted on that condition—that lie could not faithfully and usefully serve his Majesty if he were not permitted to propose a measure to Parliament of the description which had been submitted to the other House."—(Hear, hear.) In the second, his Lordship, in unequivocal language, and with un earnestness of expression worthy of the great cause of political regeneration to which he is devoting all bio energies, thus proclaims his fixed determination, that in order to maintain his Bill, he will shrink from no pro ceeding dictated by public duty The Noble Marquis had also complained that threats had been held out of a dissolution of Parliament in the event of the rejection of the measure, and had called on him for some ex plicit declaration on that point. He would make no such ex plicit declaration.—(Hear.) All he would state was this,—that he considered himself as committed to the proposed measure, without the possibility of compromise or retreat—(Hear, hear) — by that measure he would stand or fall ; and he was determined not to consent to any thing which would detract from its effici ency.—(Cheers.) He was not presumptuous enough to say that the measure was so complete and perfect that there might not be some matters requiring correction ; but to nothingin any degree detracting from its efficiency would he ever consent.—(Cheers.) He said, again, by that measure he would stand or fall—(Hear, hear)—and, without wishing to throw out any threat, yet he de clared that, to carry a measure which he believed was calculated to do the greatest good it was possible for any measure to do, by silencing the voice of complaint, by removing the cause of dis content, by uniting in confidence and affection to the Govern ment of the country the people of the country,—to carry a mea sure of this description, to which he stood committed, there was no proceeding dictated by public duty from which he would shrink."—(Clieers.) People of England, such is your King—such is his Prime Minister. Will not you, in support of your own rights, stand by such a King and such a Minister? Every corner of the empire answers—Yes. It seems needless after this to refer to the absurd reports that the King was opposed to a dissolution of Parliament, if a dissolution should be necessary. Yet it was asserted, till his Ma jesty's dealings with some of his own servants refuted the fa'sehood, that the King was opposed to the Bill, and' above all was afraid of the excitement of a dissolution. Ye Powers ! what would the excitement of a dissolution and a general election be, under the hope that the popular rights might still thereby be reclaimed and re-established, when compared to the excitement of the Bill's simple rejec tion—when put in competition with the announcement that it was irrecoverably lost, and that the boroughmongers would adhere to their usurpations ? It you are afraid of excitement, dread that which would be con sequent upon the cruel disappointment of a kingdom's just expectation. If the Bill could be rejected this night, before the departure of the mails from London, every guard would announce the fatal tidings to the towns and villages as he passed, and Poland itself would not be in a greater conster nation and commotion on the entrance of the Russians, than would England be, though unarmed, on the knowledge of so dreadful an event. Why, men, cannot you see the signs of the times ? Every day we have to report the meeting of some great county; in yesterday's publication York• ohire, and in to-day's Kent, uttrr their mighty voices to Parliament and the Throne. Every county, city, town, an d hamlet, petitions for Reform. Say them .‘ nay," if you please ; but if you do, pretend not that you are afraid of excitement. It is our apprehension of excitement that impels us to lay these truths before you. We repeat, be wise in time : open your eyes, your ears. All England calls aloud for the Reform The Jacobin Ministry, by which the British nation is at this moment convulsed and endangered, threatens by means of its organs the Press to dissolve the Parliament which has determined to withstand its revolutionary de signs. We think the men who, for the mere sake of maintaining themselves in office, could propose a measure to the Legislature so destructive as the Reform Bill, may be &operate enough for any thing. We should therefore not be surprised if they were to realise the menace their adherents and advocates so loudly proclaim. But should they do so, it was evident, beyond the possibility of con tradiction or doubt, that they adopt this course in the revolutionary hope that the elections which must follow will be controulled and governed by revo lutionary mobs. Has the constituency of England undergone any such material change since last summer, that the Ministers of the Crown can reasonably hope to procure, by any other means than that of revo lutionary terror, an assembly essentially different from the present House of Commons, and yet 'emanating rom the same source? Or do they mean to effect a revolution in England by the compendious process of a Cabinet delibera ,ion, and to issue writs for the return of Members to their new Parliament only to such places as they suppose are sure to give them Members favourable to their views? Or if neither of these questions ought to be answered in the iffirmative, why should it be expected, let us then ask, that the same constituency which elected an anti-revolutionary House of Commons in the summer of 1830 will elect a re volutionary House of Coinmons in the spring of 1831 ? We trust that our Sovereign will avert from the country the calamities and convulsions that cannot fail to be produced by a general election, springing out of a single question of paramount importance and out of intense ex citement, and which must naturally be governed in every instance by the feelings of men upon that single question. Such an appeal to the people of any country is in itself a revolutionary measure. It is a proceeding utterly re pugnant to the whole principle and spirit of the represen tative system of Great Britain. It converts the whole mass of the electors into legislators for the nonce. It calls together, not a British House of Commons, but an assembly if delegates to a National Convention, convened for the express purpose of new-modelling the Constitution. It makes the King of England expressly undertake the initiative of a revolutionary movement. At the present moment then it is the first duty of every man who values the peace and safety of the country to inculcate the salutary, and, as we have no doubt the event would prove it, this well-founded ap prehension upon the revolutionists who surround the Throne. Let the King's Ministers be reminded that public meetings, at which the rabble, who can vociferate most loudly, are always sure to carry the day, afford no conclusive indication of the result of elections, at which men's names are put down, and their claims to vote are open to discussion. It is said that the existing consti tuency, whose chartered rights are to be in every instance either annihilated or impaired by the proposed measure, .ire nevertheless favourable to it. We believe the revsrse to be the fact. Let those electors, be they many or few, therefore, in our counties, cities, and boroughs, who thin!: that they have hitherto well fulfilled the duty entrusted to them by the Constitution, and that no interest of the country requires their degradation, come forward and man fully say that they will voteat the threatened general election for no man who wishes to inflict upon them this injury and insult. A single declaration of this sort, with the names, appended to it of known electors, is well worth all the re solutions of fifty public meetings. We hope and trust that the friends of the British Constitution will at length bestir themselves. There is not a moment to he lost.— The opponents of revolution have been too long torpid. We above all things imploie the high-minded and loyal gentlemen of England not to neglect their duty to their country, to themselves, and to their posterity, in the event of a general election at the present crisis being forced upon us, through listless indolence or pusillanimous despair.— The noise is on the other side. Be it so. As reason and patriotism are, so should energy, activity, and self-devotion be on theirs. We say distinctly, and we earnestly hope that our words may make the desired impression, that the men of property in England will deserve—will indeed themselves in a great measure have wrought the ruin that must inevitably overtake them and theirs, should the project of the revolutionists succeed, if the constituency of a single county, city, or borough in the three kingdoms be left without the offer of representatives determined to oppose revolution in every shape. The Ministers must, for their own sakes, however reluctantly, direct the public force to the protection of the persons and property of con stitutional candidates and voters during the turmoil of an election, even against the efforts of their own revolutionary allies, the mob. They have not dared to place a revolu tionist at the Horse Guards as the successor to a York and a Wellington. The loyal gentry and constituency of Eng land may therefore, we are p rsuaded, safely despise the insolent menaces of those confederates of Ministers who strive to deter them from the discharge of their duty by an appeal to their fear. We call upon them to show how thoroughly they despise the insult these menaces imply. Upon their resolution or timidity the fate of England de pends.—Morning Post. REFORM MEETINGS IN SUPPORT OF lIIS MAJESTY'S MINISTERS. COUNTY OF RENT. In consequence of a requisition presented to the High Sheriff of the county of Kent, B. Powell, Esq., an , l signed by the Earls of Radnor" and Winchilsea, Lords Barham and Sondes, and a large number of most opulent and respectable freeholders, a county meeting was ap pointed to be held at twelve o'clock yesterday on Penen den-heath. The day, however, came in with a storm of sleet and snow, and as there appeared no chance at eleven o'clock of the weather's taking up, Mr. Scudatnore, the Under-Sheriff, proceeded to the Heath, for the purpose of formally adjourning the meeting to the High street, Maid stone. At the same time a placard was issued, stating that the meeting would be opened in the High-street at half-past twelve o'clock. A few waggons were placed before the Town-hall, and in spite of the inclemency of the weather upwards of 3,000 persons were assembled in the open air at one o'clock, when the meeting was opened by the High Sheriff. Mr. SCUDAMORE read the requisition. The HIGH SHERIFF then said that he had received a letter from their worthy representative, Sir E. Knatch bull, which be would request Mr. Scudamore to read to the meeting. Mr. SCI3DAMORE then read a letter from the Hon. Ba ronet, in which he expressed regret that he could not sup port the Reform Bill. The Earl of RADNOR came before them, at the request of several gentlemen of the county, to propose an address to his Majesty, expressive of the gratitude which they felt towards him for having given his sanction to the Bill, which now engrossed so much of their attention.— (Cheers.) It had been the fashion for many years past to confound the words " Reform" and " revolution ;" and if his Majesty had been wise enough and attentive enough to the wishes of his people to get rid of the foolish pre judices against Reform, which had been carefully instilled into the minds of his predecessors on the throne, and into the minds of his nobility, that Reform was dangerous to the interests of the Crown and to the rights of property inherited by the higher orders, he thought that the least return which the people could make to their Sovereign for so signal a triumph over his prejudices was to express to him their gratification and thanks.—(Cheers.) His Majesty had been graciously pleased to give his sanction to the measure which that Ministry had introduced, and he (the Earl of Radnor) believed that it would receive the almost unanimous approbation of the country.—(Cheers.) Mr. E. DARRELL seconded the motion. The Earl of WISCIIILSEA repelled with indignation the charge, that because he was advocating a measure of the Government in the principles of which he fully accorded —(Cheers)—though he saw in the details of it defects which he thought might be cured without injury to its principles, he was therefore attempting to revolutionize the country.—(Cheers.) He must honestly say—though he thought it necessary to allude more specifically to the particular occasions—that it did appear to him that on many occasions the petitions of the people had not been received by the House of Commons with that respect to which they were entitled ; and from the time when he first made that observation, he had come to the conclusion that the House of Commons did not fairy represent the people..—(Cheers.) He had little more to say to the meeting new. He thought that the country was much indebted to his Majesty's Government for the mariner in which this measure had been brought forward. Independently of the great And commanding talents pos sessed by the Noble Earl at the head of that Government, he possessed a fund of sterling political integrity and honesty, which was surpassed by none, much less by those who had deceived their friends and disappointed their enemies by an abandonment of their principles.—(Cheers.) He thought that the Noble ',old was entitled to the eternal gratitude of his country for the manner in which he bed brought forward this question.—(Loud cheers.) He fully agreed in the language of the address which had beers that day proposed to them. Never had th ere b een on the throne of Great Britain a King to whom the people were more indebted than to his present Majesty.—(Cheers.) His Majesty lived, and would live, in the hearts and affections of his people.—(Cheers.) That was the best support of his Crown, and his Majesty was too wise to wish for any other.—(Cheers.) When the Bill came into the House of Lords, as lie was convinced that it would come— (Cheers) — he should be at his post ready to give it his humble, but honest support.—(Great cheering.) Lord AIAtioN nest addressed the meeting. He was going to speak uncovered, but the freeholders insisted on his putting on his hat. He claimed their indulgence upon two grounds ; the first was, that he was a young man, end that this was the first public meeting of the county which he had attended, though he had been born in Kent, and had spent the greater part of his life within the county. The second was, that he had voted last night in the minority against the Reform Bill.—(Loud hootings, and cries of " Off, off.") Yesterday evening he had voted against the Bill ; but not, he begged leave to say, against the principle of Reform —(Outcry)—for there were other unobjectionable modes of Reform which he was really to support.—( A voice, " What are they ?") He had been asked what they were. He would tell them. He thought that a good Reform should not begin with disfanchise ment, and this Bill would disfranchise half of the present electors for the town of Maidstone.—(lmmense outcry, and shouts of " cant" and " humbug." (He thought it defective in so many par is that it would he much better to withdraw the Bill and have a new one altogether.—(Dis approbation. ) The meeting, lie saw, thought his idea very absurd.—(Yes, yes.) He thought it hard that half the town of Maidstone should be disfranchised.—(Cries of " No, no.") It was said that this might be amended in the Committee. But they did net know the Bill.—(" We do better than you.") Did they know the Bill ? Had they read it? He had.—(So have we.) It had been stated by an Hon. Friend of his in the House of Commons the other evening, that all Members with whom lie had con versed upon the subject had told him that they thought the Bill a good Bill for the country generally, but that it worked awkwardly in their respective counties. Now, what ought sentib'e men to think of that plan which was said to work well throughout all England, and yet worked ill in Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, and Surrey ?—(Cries of " That's all owing to the rotten boroughs.") The rotten boroughs, what had they to do with this question ?—(A cry of" Every thing.") He should come to the rotten boroughs presently—(Come to them at once)--but he had not a hundred tongues to reply to a hundred voices at once, and therefore each subject must wait its turn.—(The rotten boroughs.") Did they mean to say that there was no advantage in the close boroughs?—(" Yes, none, whatever.")—Let them observe him well, and let him not he misunderstood. He was for extending the popular in fluence in the representation. He thought that at present it was not strong enough, and lie had said so in his place in the House of Commons, for he had spoken more than an hour on this question yesterday. He had said that he wished for a temperate and moderate Reform, and that for such a Reform he would be ready to vote.—(Out cry, and a shout of " That's humbug !") Was that fair ? There was a use in the close boroughs, and lie would tell them what it was.—(You need not—it brings you in 5,000/. every election !") He would suppose that a Mi nister had not a seat in the House of Commons ; well, he must get a seat to discharge his public functions in Par. ' liament. Those functions would compel him to live most of the year in town. It might be well for men of property and respectability, like Lord Althorp, who had large estates and old family connections in a county, to go down to that county and solicit the votes of the electors ; but what would have been the case with Mr. Canning, who never possessed an acre of ground in his life ? What would have been the case with Mr. Pitt, who was a younger brother? How could they have got into Parliament ?—(G reat tumult, and a cry of "If they had never been in Par liament it would have been all the better for the country.") It had been found, over and over again, that a Minister could not obtain a seat in Parliament without the exertion of that influence which they were calling corrupt.—(Out cry.) If this Bill should pass, it would destroy one description of aristocracy to erect a worse and a stronger aristocracy in its place.—(No, no.) What was that aristocracy ?—The aristocracy of money. He wished them to observe, that a list of 22 names, the most illus trious for talent in the country, had been read to the House; and those names belonged to members who had all been returned for close boroughs. The first began with Burke, and ended with the present Lord Brougham .e•-(A man in the crowd, " How many bad members did the rotten boroughs send in the same time ?") There was Pitt, Fox, and Tierney.—(A cry of " That's enough ; we know it all.") He begged to be heard for a few minutes longer, for he was on his defence.—(A laugh.) He said, that without the close boroughs the country could not go on.—(A voice, " Yes, well enough ; it can't go on with them.") They had read in the Bible—(Cries of " Oh, oh! a boroughinoriger and a Bible!")—that they were to judge of a tree by its fruits. Now what ought they to think of .a tree which had produced such noble fruit as those sixty boroughs had ?---He had heard it said in the crowd that be wished well to the system because it suited him, and he could sell a seat at every election for 5,000/. He could assure them that this was riot the case, and that in the vote which he had recently given, he had even acted contrary to his own per sonal interest.—(Cries of " What place is it?")-It was a town in Wiltshire,—Wootton Bassett.—(Roars of laugh ter.)—By the new Bill that borough was to be disfran chised, and Kent was to have two additional Members. If lie had voted for the Reform Bill, he thought that he might venture to say,without arrogance, that from the respectability of his family, from his long connection with Kent, and from his property in the county, he might have aspired to, he did not say that he might have obtained, the honour of representing them in Parliament. He knew their feelings on the subject ; and be knew that be had resigned all chance of that honour by his late vote.— (Great outcry. A waggon was here upset by the crowd.) —The fate of that waggon will be the fate of the Consti tution if this Bill.be passed.—(lmmense outcry.) Mr. LARKINS said that the Noble Lord had told them that he was young. This was quite true ; the Noble Lord was young, very young, and that might account fur, though it would not excuse, the vote which the Noble Lord, had told them he gave last night.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He trusted that when the Noble Lord arrived at mature age, he would arrive also at the age of discretion, anti if the Noble Lord did, the Noble Lord would never give such a vote again. If he had not been very much misinformed, the Noble Lord had lately made a very bad speculation in Wootton Basset.—(Cheers and laughter.) But the Noble Lord had told them that he had made a sacrifice in voting aeainst the Reform Bill. Now what was the sacrifice? Why it was the sacrifice of an anticipation of the poi eibility of his representing that county in Parliament if the Bill should be carried, and four Members given to the county. But what was the Noble Lord's loss if the Bill should be carried ? All ! the Noble Lord had not told them that. No matter, he would tell it them. The Noble Lord's loss would be the loss of Wootton Basset.—(Cheers.) It would be, not prospec tive and possible loss, but present and certain loss, for Wootton Basset was set down to be disfranchised, and Wootton Basset was worth about 2,000/. a year to the Noble Lord.—(Cheers.) Lo s r u dik . The IMION—No ; upon my honour , not above half thatm petition was received with loud cheering; and, to use their own words, the tueeting then gave "three cheers for Watson." • Mr. LARKINS-Well ; he would not dispute the amount of the loss—loss it undoubtedly was and certain loss ; so what became of the Nob'e Lord's sacrifice ? (Cheers.)— This bill, it was said, would destroy the Con stitution. So it would if the rotten boroughs were a part of the Constitution, but if they were not, then the Bill would not destroy the constitution. He would not then go into the argument of the rotten borough system. He must, however, say that he thought the Member for the county of Kent must feel himself disgraced in sitting by a boroughmonger.—(Cheers and laughter.) Mr. WATSON (Member for Canterbury) said that he joined most cordially in the jorus, and he trusted, una nimous feeling of approbation of that meeting towards the measure of Reform —(Cheers.)—The Hon. Gentle man then read a petition to ► i he House of Lords in support of the Reform Bill. Sir • W. COSIVAY seconded the motion, and concluded by calling upon the meeting to give three cheers for the King and the Constitution.—This was done, and " one cheer more" for Lord Grey was also given. Sir J. 'FYLDEN rroposed to the meeting a petition to the House of Commons, and trusted that the meeting would call for the Bill—the whole hill—and nothing but the whole Bill.—(Cheers.) —The Noble Lord had told them that 22 clever men had come into Parliament by means of rotten boroughs. This was true. But if the rotten boroughs had brought in such a man as Charles Fox, had they. not also brought in such a man as Charles Wetherell.—(lfear, and laughter, and a cry of " Yes, and Horace Twiss.")—Ay, Horace Twiss,—now was not he a nice sample for a setoff list of stupid borough Members against the clever list which the Noble Lord had given at second-hand from Sir Robert Peel.—(Cheers and laughter.)—Th is argument was a very bad one, for if the beat Members of Parliament had obtained seats by means of rotten boroughs, so had the worst. There was anothet point which he was anxious to touch. Let them recol lect that the second reading of the Bill had been carried by a small numerical majority. With this small majority of one, it was very likely that the Ministers would find themselves unable to carry the Bill through. If so, there would be a dissolution, and then be did trust that the people would recollect what part in the matter they bad to act, and that they would act that part honestly, diligently, and Zealously.—(Cries of " We will, we will.") The petition was received with loud cheering, and " three cheers for Tylden." The address to the King was then put, and carried unanimously. The petition to the House of Lords was then put and carried unanimously, as was also the motion that it should be presented by the Earl of Winchilsea. The petition to the House of Commons was then pu. and carried unanimously. It was also moved that it should be presented by Mr. Hodges.—(Carried unanimously amidst loud cheering.) Mr. HODGES said that if a dissolution of Parliament should take place, his best exertions would again be at their service, to bring this question to a successful termi nation. Mr. LARKINS moved, in a speech highly complimen tary to Lord Radnor and Lord Winchilsea, the thanks of the meeting to the Noble Peers who had attended that meeting, and also to those who had signed the requisition. The motion was carried with three cheers. The thanks of the meeting were then voted by accla mation to the High Sheriff, who returned thanks, and the meeting then a perated at half-past four o'clock. NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY The greatest anxiety was manifested on Wednesday to know the result of the Reform debate ; and though it wa4 nearly eleven o'clock at night, many hundreds were wait ing round the White Lion to hear the news. The an. nouncement of one majority was received wick loud cheers. The same night a Committee was formed and subscriptions entered into, to print the majority and minority for circu lation throughout the county. This morning a meeting ii reported to have been held among some of the influential men of the county, and they have subscribed five thousand pounds to oppose Admiral Sotheron being again returned for Nottinghamshire. The candidate to be proposed is John Smith Wright, Esq., of Kempstone-hall, who, at the county meeting last week, made a very powerful speech in favour of the Ministerial measure of Reform. Mr. Smith Wright has always been considered as one of the most liberal Tories, and he will have the suffrages of all classes in his favour ; as the only test will be the Bill, it will at once be evident what is the opinion of the freeholders re lative to the Admiral's declaration against the Bill, which was partially known yesterday, from the Second Edition of The Sun Newspaper. DIVISION ON THE REFORM BILL. BOROUGHS IN SCHEDULE (A) TO BE ENTIRELY DISFRANCHISED. VOTED AGAINST THE MEASURE ON 22D MARCH. BOROUGHS. PATRONS. Duke of Newcastle Marquis of Hertford.. Lord Aylesbury Lord Beverley Lord Powis Duke of Newcastle Lord Wharncliffe I Duke of Rutland 1 J Lord Calthorpe 1, agst. Duke of Buckingham Greville Howard 1 Lord Cholmondeley 1 Bankes (Sir C. Kerrison I— Lucy (Lord Monson ILord Lansdale .. Hope Lord St, Germains 11 Pitt Luttrell D. of Northumberland! Legh ,Marquis of Hertford... IJolliffe Ld. Mount Edgecumbe Lord Hardwicke 1 Lord Sondes I Lord Londonderry I Duke of Buckingham. jJames Alexander IJ. A. Gordon 1 Samuel Smith !Lord Bath... Sir L. Scott 1 Lord Sydney 1 Miss Holmes Colonel Legh did nc DIVIDED. I Lord Thanet Lord Lonsdale Alexander Baring lAttl Heytesbury Buller Lord Yarborough 1 air F. Barrington 1 Ordnance in former times, now open Hawkins (Lord Grosvenor* Duke of Marlborough Lord Clarendon, agst. * Supports the Bill w; FOR THE DIRASU W. Russell W. Russell',... IT. H. Bradshaw Marquis of Clevelan I Lord Fitzwilllarn Lord Grosvenor Lord Cleveland John Smith Marquis of Anglesea...l !J. Calcraf, , Lard Cleveland Duke of Norfolk_ M.P. for the County of NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " MAR RIAGE" AND " THE INHEEITANCE."-The Novel of " Destiny, or the Chief's Daughter," will positively be ready for delivery at all the Booksellers on Wednesday, the SOth instant.--Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane. CLARE ELECTION.-Sir EDw. O'BRIEN, in an address to the electors of Clare, has pledged himself to supprt Parliamentary Reform. No such pledge was given in his first address, and it may be fairly presumed, if he did not dread a formidable opposition in the contest now pending, Sir EnwAnn would be as silent as ever re garding Reform..Vnblin Morning Register. The entrance of our troops into Ferrara has given a severe blow to the revolutionary mania in the Lega tions. The most violent liberals already began to hold more temperate language, and the faithful subjects, who were frightened by the rapid progre,s of the rebellious party, recover their courage, and shew themselves ready to take the field against the agitators. A little vigour on th e part of the Pap rl Government will probably suffice to restore tranquillity without any foreign aid. The present Insurgents in Italy appear to be very good tempered, and no friends to bloodshed ; and as was the case some years ago in the Austrian campaign against Naples, a few can non have now put to flight the whole republican army of Nlodena. Assurances are said to have been given by France, that no objection would be made to the coercive measures to be taken by our Government in Italy. Our Government, besides, has never acknowledgel for itself the . principle of non-intervention with respect to Italy, and it is not priibable that it ever will acknowledge it, as it is ibandon, d according to circumstances and convenience by those who first set it up. It originated in England, and was first laid down by Lord Castlereagh, on the occasion of the French campaign against the Spanish Cortex, as a rule for the English Ministry, and now let us read the interpretation that Lord Pa'rner ston lately gave in the English Parliauitnt on the mode of applying it. VIENNA, MARCH 19.--Four per Cent. Aletalliques, 68i ; Bank Shares, 943. VIICNKA, MARCH 13.—We have received by express the news that the vanguard of the Imperial troops entered Modena on the 9th, where they were received, as well as his Royal Highness the Duke, with the loud acclamations of the people. Excepting the slight resistance of the in surgents at Novi, the Imperial troops have met with no further obstacle on their march. MAYENCE, MAccit 9.—The fear that the Dutch might continue to delay the declaration of the free navi gation of the Rhine was confirmed in the sitting of the Central Committee the day before yesterday. The Dutch Plenipotentiary having attached to his assent to the regu lations the condition that Antwerp should he excluded from the treaty, and required that the free navigAtiou from the Scheldt into the Rhine should be the au , ject of future negotiations. DUTCH, PRUSSIAN, AND ST. PETERS- Aldborough Aldeburgh Great Bedwin ...1 Beeralston 1 Bishop's Castle... Boroughbridge. Bessiney Bramber I Buckingham Castle Rising.. Corte Castle..." Eye Fowey Gatton Haslemere lleclon East Looe Lostwithiel Malmesbury Minehead Newport, Cornwall Newton, Lan-1 casliire Orford Petersfield.. ...... Flympton Reigate [ New Romney. i St. Mawes... ..... , Old Sarum Seaford Tregony Wendover 1 Weobly Whitchurch... Yannouthjsiel of Wight.... Appleby [ Callington Dunw•ich 1 Heytesbury West Lox Ludgershall lsre o Isle s rr tvf , g n i; Okehampton Queenborough St. Michael's Stockbridge ...... Woodstock .. Wootton Bassett Illetchingl.!y Saltash Brackley .., Camelford Higham Ferrara Hindon Ilchester Midhurst Milborne Port...! Wareham .. Winch elsea Stey nlng MEMBERS. F. Clinton /Lord Stormont Lord Douro W. Croker `Sir J. Nicholl J. J. Buxton C. Blackett D. Lyon `E. Rogers F. H. Cornewall Sir C. Wetherell M. Attwood S. Wortley E. Tunne : Irving F. Calthorpe, for (Sir G. Nugent /Sir T. Frcemantle G. Howard Lord F. Cliolmondeley (G. Bankes 1 1P..1. Miles iSir C. Kerrison W. Burge Lord Brudenell Severn t.I. T. Hope J. V. Shelley i Sir J. Beckett W. Holmes Sir T. Constable /R. Farrand vH. T. Hope A. Kemmis vLord Valletort /C. Cust Sir C. Forbes /J. Forbes (J. F. Luttrell W. E. Tomline i Sir H. Hardinge /J. Ilaine Colonel Legh Holdsworth Sir H. Cooke S. H. Kilderbee • Sir W. JOUR, G. E. Jollill'e VG. E. Antrobus /Sir C. Doraville Sir J. Yorke Non. Corby W. Miles Hon. A. Trevor Stir C.`Carrington G. W. Pigott VJames Alexander /Joseph Alexander Lyon /J. Fitzgerald P. A. Gordon J. M'Killop S. Smith A. Smith sLord W. Thynne /Lord H. F. Thynne Sir L. Scott Hon. J. R. Townsheud c Yates Peel /G. L. Thompson it vote. El. Tufton, for Lord Maitland, agst. lA. Baring, agst. LI , . Baring, for V F. Barne, agst. A. Arcedeckne, frr 'Sir G. Staunton, for A'Court, agst. C. Bullyl4or, ISir C. Htle, agst. Sir S. Graham, for E. T. Foley, apt. on. C. A. Pelham, for H. Gurney, absent card Seymour, agst. ' I, Agar Ellis, fur TJ. Capel, agst. . Gladstone, for J. H. Hawkins,for ' lion L. - Kenyon, agst. IS. Stanley, agst. • LG. Wilbrahitm,for Lord Blandford, for I.d. S. Churchill, agst. Lend Mahon, agst. • H. Villiers, for rarnily. re. Tennyson iSir J. Horne (Crampton ILord Darlin gton,ogst. (Bradshaw, for LBradshaw, absent rM. Milbank LS. Cradock Lord Howick CJ. Weyland Hon. q. M. Fortescue rM. Bruce LHope Vere CJ. A Smith C. Smith, absent r.. S. Byng R. I, Shea Calcraft, for Ewing, absent J. Williams, absent on circuit H. Dundas, cgs& tE. Blount " c G. It. Phißpi Du BURGH PAPERS. ST. PETERSBURG, Maacit 9.—On the 6th instant his Imperiii Highness the Grand Duke Michael set out from this city for Kowno. Various promotions in the army have been made by his Majesty. Major •General Pwince Gortschakoff has ob-: tained the rank of Lieutenant-General, for his distinguished conduct in the battles with the Polish rebels. By a resolution of the Council of the Empire, confirmed by the Emperor, it is ordered tbs.', to facilitate the raising of the recruits in those provinces where the authorities shall think it necessary, the nu►Nber of persons appointed to receive them shall be increased. It is also ordered that in future individuals may be taken as recruits who have lost two of their front teeth, or are blind of one eye, whether the right or the left. WARSAW, MARCH 14.--The Warsaw State Gazette gives the following news :—" On the 9th the Russians retired from Praga to Wawer. In this village are the head-quarters of General Geismar, who has the command of the Russian troops remaining near Warsaw. On the following day our General (Jankowski) advanced to Wawer, to reconnoitre the enemy's position. The cavalry of Augustow dispersed a corps of Cossacks, which co vered the Russian army. On this occasion we had two men killed and 20 wounded. Among the wounded are two Staff Officers. It appeared that the enemy still occu pied his frontiers, with 15 or 20,000 infantry, cavaliT, and artillery. The ice on the Vistul4 has begun to up, and the water has risen eleven inches. On the llth it carried away three pontoons of the bridge over the Vis tula. News was received yesterday that General Dwer nicki had again broken a Russian battalion, and taken two cannon.. Col. Dzealkowski announces in the same paper that the Commander-in-Chief had commissioned him to negotiate the exchange of Lieut.-Col. Spendowski, who was severely wounded and taken prisoner by the Russians, and th a t General Korff had, in the most obliging manner, signified the consent of General Geismar. The Warsaw Gazette says that he has since been ex= changed for the Russian Lieut.-Col. Butowiez. An official bulletin of General Krasinski, Governor of the fortress of Z noose, dated the 7th, gives an account of a successful expedition of part of his garrison. Two Rus sian dragoons bring taken prisoners, who were sent from Lulbin by General Kreutz to General Balbekow, in Dubi enki, with orders to assemble immediately the Russian re serve battalions in Volltynia, and to proceed with them by forced marches to the corps of General Creutz at Lublin. To hinder the Governor of Zamose resolved to un dertake the above-mentioned expedition to Uscilug. It was perfectly successful. The young Polish soldiers rushed impetuously into Uscilug, where they bad to take every house by storm. They gained a complete victory, taking 360 prisoners, including Lieut.-Col. Bohomolec (wounded), and eight subalterns, ten horses, one standard, 300 muskets, &c. The enemy left seventy dead on the fief. We had ten killed and four wounded. This expedition from Zatnosc to Uscilug, and back, was executed in three days in perfect order. The Polish Courier states that the corps of Prince Schchoffski is assembling in the vicinity of Plock. The Posen Gazette of the 15th contains the following article :—" According to the accounts given by travellers worthy of credit, who left Warsaw but a few days ago, the terrorists now prevailed there, at the head of whom is the General-in-Chief, Skrzyoecki, an extremely impetuous man, who has resolved to combat to the last extremity...— This disposition, however, is not shared by the inhabi tants of Warsaw. The Russian main army is supposed to be between Plock and Alodlin, about Wyszagrod. Only a corps of observation remains before I'raga. The south east part of the kingdom of Poland is said to be entirely left by the Russians, and General Dwernicki with his five corps, it is reported, scours the country beyond Lublin to the neighbourhood of Uscliug. Chlopieki is said to have left Warsaw. Private letters from Warsaw of the Sth, in the Breslau, Gazette, say it was thought that Count Diebitsch, as he Las not yet made any serious attempt to cross the Vistula, is waiting for the Guards, which crossed the frontiers of Poland on the let, at Kaueu (Kovno), road, considering the had roads, can hardly reach the vicinity of Warsaw before the 20th." POLISH FIIGNTIICILS, MARCH 13.—1 t is said that early on the 11 th all the Polish officers on the frontier near Allawa disappeared, that the Polish civil officers left the torn, and that Russian troops were expected on the 11th.—Prussian State Gazette. `I HE HAGUE, 11Isscii 21._T .day, at two o'clock, his RQyal Highness the Prince of Orange arrived here frem London, and itnmediattly proceeded to the King's palace. Baron Van Zuylen Van Nyeveldt, our Ambassador Ex trordinary to the Court of London, had yesterday a long conference with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. BREnA, MARCH 20.—Private letters say that more than usual fermentation has within these few days been observed at Antwerp, and that some persons even ventured to propose a toast in favour of the Princ e of Orange, in the presence of M. Van der Suissen, the Governor, and other officers of the present Government. AMSTERDAM, 22 . —Actual Debt, Two and a Half per Cent, 381 to 89 ; Amort Synd., Four and a Half per Cent. 63 to 63i; Amort Synd., Three and a 11alf per Cent., 50 to 50k, Exchange on London-11 92 540; 11 95 ; two months, 111. 85. MELANCHOLY OCCURRUNCE---LOSS OF A STEAM-PACKET.—We regret to state, that during the storm on Wednesday night, the Frolic steam-packet going from Haverfordwest to Bristol, was totally lost on the Naas Sands, in the Bristol Channel, and every person on board perished. A number of packages of various kinds have been washed on shore; among them was& hat box, ith the direction, Colonel GORDON, Clifkla.—.Dubli" , Morning Register.