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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1831.

The French Journals state that the Parliamentary
Reform excites nearly as much attention in Paris as
the war in Poland. With regard to this last, we
still entertain a belief that the late rumours have
been much exaggerated. That the Russians have
advanced is evident, but that they have been al-
lowed to enter Warsaw so tamely as has been re-
presented by the inhabitants, we must still entertain
our doubts. The statement is not in keeping with
what we have already seen of the heroic conduct of
the Po'es.

Hamburg Papers have been received. They con-
tain no new intelligence of moment. The extracts
are given in another column.

At a late meeting of the Thames Tunnel Pro-
, prietors, it was mentioned thAt a proposal had been
made by a French Company to complete the work.
We know that this grand national undertaking has
excited univers d admiration and astonishment on
the Continent, but why is it left to foreigners to
bring it to a conclusion ? Surely it is a re-
flection on the enterprising character of Dig.
land, that a work so unprecedented in its nature
—so invaluable in its results, combining the useful
and the ornamental to a greater degree than was
ever before known—should be left in its present
unfinished state, or if completed, should be in.
debted for that completion to the spirited and
liberal enterprize of Frenchmen ? Are there no
public funds available for such a purpose ?
Have the boroughmongers and their dependents
swallowed every thing ? How melancholy, how
degrading is the reflection, that the sam3 country
which can afford to give its thousands:annually to
this Honourable Placeman and that Honourable
Placeman ; which enables this Noble Lord to ex-
hibit his morals at the gaming-table, and that Noble
Lord his patriotism at Newmarket ; which supplies
an ELLENBOROUGH with Macassar for the cultivation
of his love-locks, and a PERCEVAL with books for the
improvement of his logic and his devotion--
how degrading, we repeat, is the reflection, that
such a country, so lavishly generous, cannot yet
furnish means for the completion of the noblest
undertaking ever yet projected by human :enter,
prise ! The Pension List would make a ca-
pital fund for such a purpose; and so high is our
opinion of the public and private virtues of the nu-
merous Lords, Ladies, Right Honourables, and
Honourables, who figure in it, that we are con-
vinced they will gladly give in to the project. Ex-
cellent fraternity, we know a hint will be sufficient I
Let us hope for the honour of our country, that
when the Reform measure is accomplished, Lord
DUNCANNON will turn his attention to this stupen-
dous work. It will be worthy of the present Ad.
ministration. How grand will be the spectacle—a
ral-road along the Tunnel--intercharging the com-
modities of either side the Thames with the rapidity
of thought! This will indeed be one of the won-
ders of the world, and the admiration of posterity.

In the extremity of their desperation the Bo-
roughmongers are despatching their emissaries
throughout the country for the purpose of pro-
curing shaln:meetings of, what they call, moderate
Reform. We hasten to apprise our countrymen
of this manoeuvre, and to warn them, as they value

their constitutional privileges, to pass unheard
" the song of the charmer, charm he never
so wisely." Moderate Reform ! That is to say,
a Reform which may gull the country, while
it enables the Boroughmongers to retain all
their old unconstitutional privileges!! The idea
is perfectly absurd ; and if the people give
into it, or allow the measures now in progress to
be crippled and disfigured by the arts of the most
grasping, selfish, tyrannical oligarchy on record, they
will deserve to suffer, and suffer, they may rely on it,
(from past experience, and present endurance) they
will, and that to an extent of which at present they
have not the slightest notion.

Whether the Belgians will eventually be brought
to adhere to tl.e views of the Great Powers, as ex-
pressed in the Protocol of the 19th February, re-
cently published, is a question yet undecided. Their
adhesion, if they ever give it, will be the result
rather of intimidation than of their conviction of
its justice; and it must be admitted that however
excellent the motives of the Protocol-makers may
have been, they have asserted principles in their
declarations which require some consideration before
they can be assented to. " The ties," say the
Allies, " having been severed which we formed in
1814, it belongs to us again to accomplish the ob-
ject which we proposed in forming them. We must
form new combinations to secure that tranquillity of
Europe of which the union of Belgium and Holland
formed one of the bases. We keep the disposal of
Belgium, as we kept it in 1814, though not the
sovereignty, with a view to the balance of power
and to the peace of Europe." Now the plea of
" the balance of power and the peace of Europe"
is so convenient a pretext for interposition, that it is
easy to see that under it the Allies would justify
the division and appropriation among themselves of
all the petty European States, and that the wishes
of the people of those States would not be allowed
to weigh a feather in the scale. It has been alto-
gether overlooked that the Belgians were no parties
to the Treaty of Vienna, any more than to the Pro-
tocols of London, and yet the Allies are surprised
that the Belgians wish to go their own way to work
in providing for their own future security and do-
mestic government.
There have been far too many of these Protocols,
as we have before remarked, and we shall be well
satisfied if they do not, in the end, embroil Great
Britain in the confusion of the Continent. Bel-
gium effected her independence without our aid,
and it is extremely hard that she cannot be left
alone to arrange, or to fight out, with Holland, the
differences yet subsisting between them. It is
quite absurd to suppose that the disposal of Luxem-
bourg, the settlement of the Dutch debt, or the ap-
pointment of the Belgian Sovereign or Regent, can
endanger the balance of power. The balance of
power is in jeopardy in a quarter where the Allies
will take good care not to interpose,—we mean in
unhappy Poland. The Poles are fighting the battles
of the Western States of Europe against
that colossal giant of the North who would crush
us all when within his reach, as he is now
crushing the noble Poles. While the civiliza-
tion of Europe is virtually attacked by Russia, the
diplomatists are busy in endeavouring to disconcert
the measures of the new Brussels Government,—in
sneering at the respectable person who has been
chosen Regent,—and ir, calumniating M. VAN DER
WEYER, now the Foreign Minister of Belgium, and
eminently fitted for that post by that single-minded-
ness, and that honourable and straightforward cha-
racter, which peculiarly distinguish him, and which
have very naturally exposed him to the abuse of
those slippery, time-serving toad-eaters, who call
themselves diplomatists. • Far be it from us to class
Sir THOMAS DEN3IAN with such creatures, but we
cannot help remarking that his allusion, in a late
speech, to "the useless revolution in Belgium, which
had been polluted by plunder, and had not prospered,"
wis a gross misret resentation of facts, of which we
could hardly suppose the Attorney-General to be
capable. If the Learned Gentleman will refer
to a late article in the Westminster, and to
two articles in the Foreign Quarterly Review, on
the subject of the Netherlands, he will find that
every cause existed in Belgium which would ren-
der a revolution desirable, and, as to plunder on
the part of the Belgians, we defy him to point out
a single instance. If the result has not been hitherto
prosperous, the diplomatists must be referred to for
an explanation, why they have not made better pro-
vision for the happiness of a State which, they as-
sert, is under their disposal.
The French Government have been quick (as
why should they not ?) in sending an Ambassador
to the Court of the Regent, SUBLET. There is
already as good an understanding between France
and Belgium as if , they were united. The
Belgians consider Russia, Austria, and Prussia as
their enemies, and since they know that the people of
England will not permit the English Government to
go to war either for or against them, it is to France
alone that they can look for support and confidence.
The French nation are disposed to give them that
support; and the French Cabinet can now only act
in accordance with the national wish. Diplomatists
can no more prevent the virtual union with France
and Belgium, than our boroughmongers can the
passing of the Reform Bill. The true policy of
Great Britain is to unite herself closely with Bel-
gium and with France, and to have as little as pos-
sible to say to the Great Powers. Great Powers,
forsooth! and is not France a great Power? France,
that has now a National Guard of upwards of four
millions of her own citizens ?—We have before us
a very recent official return of this force, signed by
M. YDIBERT the Secretary-General of the National
Guard of France, the results of which are as follows:
NUMBERS OF THE RURAL NATIONAL GUARD.
From 20 to 25 years of age 337,863
From 26 to 30 ditto 490,902
From 31 to 59. ditto 2 215,593

----- 3,044,418
NUMBERS.OF THE NATIONAL GUARD IN TOWNS.
From 20 to 25 years of age 107,031
rose 26 to SO ditt0.................... 155,529
From 31 to 59 ditto. ....... .......... 101,871

964,431

Total 4 008,849
This is truly a formidable force. But to whom is it
formidable ? To the enemies of France. And the
enem'es of France are the same as the enemies of
the liberties of Europe. The strength of the
National Guard of France is therefore a most cheer-
ing and hopeful fact.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LY'S.
DEAL, MARCH Io.—WindL S.OS.E.D to S.E.—The outward
bound sailud this morning, but the Warren Hastings and most
of them have put back. Arrived the Magdaline, from Messina,
and the Sprightly, Newton, from St. Michael's.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Wind S.—Passed by the Lord
William Bentinck, from Dengal--sai ed the 24th of October; from
Madras the oth of November; from the Cape of Good Hope the
4th of January, and from St. Helena the 41st. Sailed his Majesty's
ship Ganges for Plymouth.
PLY MOUTH,
burton, Renett, from Messina ; Reward, Goss, from Palermo ;
MARCH 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Ash-
and the Gratitude, Dugdale, from St. Sebastian's.
FALMOUTH, Msacit 9.—Wind W.S.W. to W.—Arrived
the Eleanor, Dickinson, from Gallipoli • Rapid, Rosen, from
Naples ; Susan, Alexander, from Carth'agena, and the John
Daniell, Richards, from Seville. Arrived from Portsmouth and
sailed his Majesty's ship Onyx for Rio Janeiro, with despatches.
Sailed the Lady Mary Pelham packet for Brazils, and the Briseis
packet for Halifax and Bermuda.

The SPEAKER'S last Parliamentary Levee,
for the present Session, will be to-morrow evening, the
12th instant.

LAW INTELLIGENCE .-(THIS DAY).

ROLLS COURT.
The Master of the Rolls sat this day at the Rolls Court, Chan-
cery-lane. _ _

BRISTOL LOAN CHARITY

This was a petition prayingWtieCWititiCni of the Master's
Report approving a scheme. It appeared from the statement of
Mr. Garratt, who appeared on behalf of the petitioners, that 11
different gifts had been given by individuals to the city of
Bristol, the general purport of which was to make loans to such
of the citizens and inhabitants as might be in want of money,
some of the loans to bear no, and others extremely small in-
terest. The sums to be lent were in some instances twenty
pounds, in others fifty pounds, but never exceeding one hundred
pounds. Very few applications had been made for these small
loans, and the reason assigned for the non-application by the pc-
tioners, was the smallness of the sums to be lent, and the short
period of the loan, rendering it not worth making the applica-
tion. A scheme had been laid hefore the Master, which he had
approved of, by which it was proposed to throw all the gifts into
one fund, to be called the Loan Fund ; to lend out sums exceed-
ing in no instance 5001. nor less than 50/., and to extend the pe-
riod of the loan to six years, the loan to be granted to any of the
freemen of the city, the burgesses being taken in preference. It
was also proposed that all sums under 1001. should bear no interest
above 10111. and not exceeding 3001. one per cent. interest, and
forire(i ttloi e give their
pay -
from 300/. to 500/. two per cent. ; the surplus interest to be laid
when that sum
up fora sinking fund, in the first placetomeet any loss that might
occur in consequence of the defalcation of any of the parties to
general made
fund and
amountedrnwhe ownno mto fl otahie: personalos witeu:
hy ,n(a'advlnllt:lLca:ntvoeotr
nrfheeeo nino.eleixlstytuoririe7tlt
applied in the same way.
His HONOUR thought the proposed scheme was calculated
to benefit the different charities, and ordered the confirmation
of the Master's report.
Mr. WRAY, who appeared on the part of the Attorney-Gene-
ral, applied for his costs, observing, that he felt astonished that
the Master should have approved of the scheme.
Mr. GARRATT expressed his surprise at the practice of the
Attorney-General appearing on petitions of this nature.
The MASTER of the ROLLS considered it the duty of the
Attorney-General to appear, and ordered him to be paid his costs.