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LONDON,
[FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 15, 1831.

The KING arrived at St. James's Palace
about half-past one o'clock this day, when shortly
after a Privy Council was held, at which the
RECORDER of London made his report of the
prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate.

After much preliminary discussion, the House
of Commons resolved itself into a Committee
upon the Reform Bill, when Sir R. PEEL pro-
posed an insidious amendment on schedule A,
that the word " each" be left out, which amend-
ment, if carried, would have effectually vitiated
the clause, but which was lost by a majority
in favour of Ministers of 97. In the
course of the discussion Mr. HUNT drivelled
forth his usual abundance of balderdash.
This Hon. Gentleman reminds us forcibly of
those orators in the American Congress, who
chatter on every subject, without possessing the
slightest knowledge of any, and whom Jonathan,
therefore, with infinite propriety, terms " slang-
whangers." Mr. HUNT is a " slang-whanger"
of the very first water. In fact he is a perfect gem
—a chrysolite. Had he lived in the days'of Gre-
cian history, he would have been second only to
THERSITES. At present he is matchless.

We point attention to the recent divisions on
the Reform Bill, and the illustration therein
given of the four-and-twenty nominees of
Boroughmongers, who figure in the last (seventh)
division. They remind us of the old song of
the " Four-and-twenty Tailors all in a row."

We have news from Poland to the sth inst.,
and all favourable. The accounts from Lithu-
ania are very cheering ; the insurrection spreads
in every direction, and to a considerable ex-
tent. The boasted victory claimed by the
Russians at Wilna turns out, as we predicted,
to have been of no importance whatever. The
fact was, that General GIELGUD, on the
19th of June, had, with part of his corps,
undertaken a strong reconnoissance towards
Wilna, but the enemy having collected their
whole force at that place, advanced against
the General in such numbers, that he could not
hope to gain a battle ; he therefore retired to his
former position, and, in the sequel, two marches
farther from Wilna. The last accounts from
Lithuania are to the 23d June. The organiza-
tion of new regiments proceeded rapidly, and
the whole army was in high spirits. The loss on
the 19th was some hundreds killed and wounded
on each side. Generals DEMBINSKI and SZY-
MANOUSKI were not engaged, the former acting
against \Vilna on the other side, and the latter
being detached against Polangen.
It was expected at Warsaw that the General-
in-Chief would shortly resume offensive opera_
tions, and attack the main army of the Russians.
One successful battle would, in the present state
of things, effectually achieve the independence
of Poland; The generous sympathy of the Hunga-
rians in favour of the Poles is worthy of praise.
Thirty-two communes or districts of Hungary
have petitioned, in eloquent and forcible terms,
the Emperor of AUSTRIA, for permission to
succour the Poles, their ancient allies. They
insist that this demand be taken into serious
consideration, and that measures be taken, at
the.approaching Diet, which opens in five days ;
they pray the EMPEROR to authorise them to
send arms and ammunition to Poland !

According to a Correspondent of the Morn-
ing Chronicle, the Russians must be ma'cing
extraordinary exertions to reinforce their armies,
and, from the losses experienced by them, all are
requisite. In the corps of RUDIGER alone are
2,000 young Jews, whose original destination
was the marine. It is now ascertained that the
expedition to Tykoczyn cost the Guards 3,600
men, and that the battle of Ostrolenka put
13,000 hors de combat. On entering Lomza
the whole of one regiment was found to consist
of 180, and another of 146 men.

The inquiry into the conduct of the con-
spirators had not finished on the 4th ; but the
greatest unanimity and cordiality prevailed in
the capital :
Wax SA w, Juror 4.—Prince Czartoryski, President of
the National Government, has issued two proclamations,
dated the Ist and 2d instant, the first to the nation, Calling
on a general participation in the Landsturm which is to
be organised, and the other to the army, exhorting it to
exert itself to the utmost in the decisive struggle which iv
at hand.
The National Government has ordered an extraordinary
court-martial t© be appointed.to try Generals Hurteg, Jan-
kowski, and Salazki, Colonel Stupecki, M. Lessel, the
chamberlain, Fenshone, and Madame Bazanow ; Brigadier-
General Wengierski, is President of this court-martial.
The Warsaw Courier of to-day says—" The committee
appointed to examine the papers of the persons arrested on
the 29th of last month, is said to have completed its
task, and to have delivered its report to the National
Government.
On the 29th, a courier from Lithuania arrived in the
capital with several reports from Generals Gielgud and
Chrapowaki, to the Commander-in-Chief, who has com-
municated to the Government a report on the operations
of the former, from 26th M ly to 15th June, and of the latter
from the 21st May to the 11th June,
Our General-in-Chief bas also addressed to the Go-
vernment a report, dated the 2d, from his head-quarters

at Watsaw, in which he announces that he has received a
report from General Gielgud, who informs him, that on
the 19th June he had, with part of 'his corps; undertaken
a strong reconnoissance towards %Vilna, • but the enemy
having collected their whole force at that place, advanced
against the General in such numbers that he could not
hope to gain a battle ; he therefore retired to his former
position, and, in the sequel, two marches farther from
Wilna. The last accounts from Lithuania are to the 23d
June. The.organ'zation of new regiments proceeded ra-
pidly, and the whole army was in high spirits. The loss
on the 19th was some hundreds killed and wounded on
each side. Generals Dembinski and Szymanouski were
not engaged, the former acting against Wilna on the other
side, and the latter being detached against Polangen.
The State Gazette stys, " Field-Marshal Paskewitsch
joined the Russian army on the 25th ult. He tra-
velled by way of Johannisberg and Dlottowen to
Lotnza : he first received the detachments of troops
there, and on the following days reviewed the other
troops in their respective cantonments. On this
account the advanced detachments fell back to their
main corps, for instance, from Stoczek and Scroezyn,
in Podlachia, and from Plonsk, in Pluck. Of the divi-
sion which arrived under the command of General Kai-
saraff, there were, on the 24th of June, about four thou-
sand men near Zatnosc, who occupied the plain between
that fortress and the Austrian frontiers. No detachments
of this corps had advanced to Pulawy, as one of our Jour-
nals has erroneously stated."
The same Paper says :—" It is reported the cot pa of
General Kreutz has followed Generals Kuruta and Knor-
ring, to act against the insurgents in Lithuania. We
learn also, that the reason why General Rudiger crossed
the 'Wiessing was, to bring two thousand cavalry to the
main army through Podlachia. In the province of Plozk.
the Russians have withdrawn from the district of Lepnow ;
they have also left Plozk, hut it seems that they mean to
maintain the line of operations from Wiszagrod to Pul-
tusk. In Podlachia there are only detached patrols in the
environs of Siediec."

The same paper says a Provisional Central Govern-
ment is organised in Lithuania, of which the Senator
Tyostkiewicz, formerly a General in the Polish army, is
President. The Government is chiefly occupied in raising
troops, and procuring necessaries for them ; the Lithu-
anian regiments are organised like ours. The regular
organised cavalry amounted on the 15th ult. to
six thousand men. According to all accounts, says
the Warsaw Courier, " The enemy's army is falling
hack on the whole line, some corps are marching in all
haste to Lithuania, to act against the insurgents, whose
numbers increase daily. The Lithuanian troops are
already under the command of General Skrzynecki. At
Nasulsk our troops took a spy, who had 212 ducats in
his pockets. The insurgents from the other side of the
Durra have already joined us ; our 19th regiment is close
to the Baltic tinder General Szymanowski."

The Polish Gazette says, General Chrapowski is to
have the chief command in Lithuania. It is said that Po-
langen is taken by our troops.

The General-in-Chief has proposed to the Government
to take measures against the cholera, which has broken
out in the province of Plozk, as it may perhaps be neces-
sary for the main army to operate in that province.
FRONTIERS OF POLAND, JOLT 2.---The accounts from
the neighbouring province of Angustowo do not quite
agree. On the other hand we hear th it General Gielgud
on his return from his unsuccessful expedition t,) Lithuania
has already passed that province, and is on the way to
Lornzi, where large detachments of Russian troops of the
main army have arrived, in order to take the retreating
Poles between two files ; but on the other hand it is said
that regular Polish troops had been seen near the village
of Gingen, opposite to the town of Augustowo, and close
to the Prussian frontiers, and that it seems that Polish
troops are concealed in the woods, and are secretly pro-
ceeding along the frontier. It is added, that the Russian
troops under Generals Pass and Alferief bad marched from
Angustowo to Raygrod, where Gerstenzwig was expected
on the 2d instant.

POLISH FRONTIERS, JULY s.—According to accounts
from Warsaw, the Polish troops under General Skrzy-
necki are said to have resumed offensive operations, and to
be marching against the Russian army. General Sier-
aw.ki is to command the reserve in Praga, for the strength-
ening of which position heavy artillery had arrived from
Zamosc.

AMSTERDAM, JULY 12.
Actual Debt, 2% per cent 373s to 38
Amort Syndic, 43% per cent. 60% to 61
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent.
LISBON, JUNE 21.—The ship Piedade, which arrived
yesterd iy with the mail from Rio Janeiro, has brought us
journals and accounts from that capital, which relate
events that have been foreseen for many years by all
sensible men who are not deluded by the prepossessions
and the language of the Utopians. The following docu-
ment, printed and published in that. capital, render it neces-
sary for us to detail particulars :
Here follow the Emperor's abdication, the nomination
of the Regency, and other documents.

Extract from the Agent to LLOYD'S at Gijon,
dated Ist July :
" The Spanish Gazette of yesterday, arrived from
Madrid, states that the Portuguese Government bad issued
letters of marque against the French."

The Livery of London held a meeting yes-
terday to enquire into the conduct of Alderman
THOMPSON, as concerned his late vote against
Ministers upon the question of the Appleby
petition. The object of this enquiry was him-
self present on the occasion, and by way of
apology for his vote, frankly acknowledged
that he had not heard a single syllable
of the debate which gave rise to it. In other
words he voted, without knowing whether he
was voting for or against Reform ; whether he
was falsifying, or whether he was fulfilling his
pledge. Such remissness, blameable at all
times, is, on a great national question like
Reform, with which the welfare of millions
is bound up, and on the success or failure
of which depends the happiness or misery
of Great Britain, perhaps of Europe, perfectly
intolerable. We know of nothing that can jus-
tify it. As for the Worthy Alderman's apo-
logy, it rather aggravates the offence than
othenrise ; at any rate it damns him as
a public man for ever, for if he can en-
dure to be caught slumbering on a question of
such paramount importance as Reform, what
service can be expected from him in cases of
minor public interest, but which at the same time
demand zeal and activity And yet, if we re-
member rightly, the worthy Alderman was
shrewd and zealous enough in his opposition to
Ministers on the subject of the timber duties.
He did not vote then without knowing what he
was voting about. He was all life and energy
when he opposed Government : he is tame and
negligent only, it seems, when called on to
support them. We dislike this emasculated—this
eunuch sort of friendship. We repudiate the
undecided principles which perpetually vibrate
between two extremes of conduct, and adhere
to neither. Henceforth let Alderman THOMP-
SON belong either to the Ministry or the
Opposition. Let him enlist under the banners
either of Sir ROBERT PEEL or Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. But let him not play the
game of " fast and loose" with both parties. Let
him not, like a certain animal between two bundles
of hay, ogle first the one and then the other, but
choose his bundle and stick to it. We throw
out this hint from no ill feeling towards the worthy
Alderman. We believe him to be in the main a
well intentioned man, though no SOLOMON, and
do not forget his pathetic allusion, some few
years since, to Eastcheap, from whose classic
Ward he asserted that he had derived his most
romantic recollections. He was " cradled"
there, we believe he said ; and certainly East-
cheap has reason to be proud of such a babe !
We cannot quit this subject without congratu-

lating the Livery on their prompt and spirited
conduct. They have already done a world of
good, and deserve the grateful acknowledgments
of the country. The Opposition will henceforth
see and feel that the people are really in earnest
on the subject of Reform ; and that all rats--as
such vermin should be—will be at once exter-
minated.