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London, England, 1831-05-18 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1831.

Rumours are abroad, that many of those Peers
who till now have been active and zealous in their
opposition to Reform, have at length become con-
verts to a measure, whose imperative necessity the
present electors have placed beyond the possibility of
doubt. Among the Peers thus won over to the cause
of justice and the people, we believe we may enume-
rate the Marquis Of BATH, Lord CARTERET, the
Duke of BUCCLEUCH, and Earls CA WDOR, CHESTER-
FIELD, HAREWOOD, CORK and ORRERY. We
trust the Church will see the necessity of following
the example of these noblemen. Were we enemies
to the Establishment, we should wish otherwise; we
should devoutly pray that they might still continue in
their course of blind unyielding bigotry ; but we re-
spect the Church, though we cannot be blind to its
defects, and would earnestly desire to see its foun-
dations rooted deep in the affections of the people,
and not in the sand, which every wind and tide has
power to influence.

So poor old BANKRS is out for Dorsetshire ! And
this despite the influence of his parsons, the threats
of his bludgeon-men, the quibbles of his u
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attorns,
and his own vast reach of political sagacity !
congratulate the Ex-Ultra on this happy termination
of his toils as a Senator. He must feel quite com-
fortable at having escaped so effectually from
long dull speeches in the House of Commons ;
from divisions protracted to the third hour in
the morning; from the groans of the afflicted
boroughmongers, and the cheers Of the triumphant
Treasury benches. Happy man ! He will be no
more doomed to listen to the rhetoric and self-
adulation of Skit. PEEL ; to the anodyne declamation
Of HORACE TIVISS ; or the modest arguments and
matchless brogue of CHOKER. His ear is hence-
forth deaf to the melodious appeals of the two
WYNNS, which stir the heart like the sound of a
trumpet; his eve is henceforth closed to the
sight of Sir CHARLES WETHERELL's shirt.
In vain for him will HERRIES rise, with a pen be-
hind his ear, to set the first principles of grammar at
defiance; in vain will DAwsoN wage desperate war
with logic and common sense; in vain will YATES
PEEL retail his pedlar jests, " for gentle dullness
ever loves a joke ;" or Gour.riunN betray. his nature,
by the length of his
speeches. To the ears and the quality of his
varied graces of all these
charms old BANKES is henceforth insensible. Is
he not a happy man then ? Yea verily.
To have escaped from the orations of BERRIES is
something; and the being no longer compelled
to listen to such men as Twiss, YATES
DAWSON, and Co., is a happine,s by no mea PoEs b,
contemned; but to have got fairly rid of the tole
rew of prosers by one lucky
coup d' whole
etat—and

we have no doubt that in his heart Mr. BANKES
chuckles at his escape—is a felicity so much beyond
all compare, that we shall not trust ourselves with
enlarging en it. " Come then, expressive silence,
muse its praise."

Our readers will find in another column, a letter
signed " A Well Wisher to Old England," on the
subject of the Ministerial Reform Bill, in which the
advantages of that great conservative measure are
canvassed with acuteness and dexterity. The writer,
im records his sentiments temperately and impar-
tially, asserts that, 11f-toe having pet used with ;men.
ton all the speeches of the Anti-Reformers, he has
riot yet met with an argument that in the slightest
degree impugns tbe sterling excellence of the Bill.

We have received by express the Journal des
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Debuts of Monday, Ikiay6, from which we extract
the folllowing:—
BELGRADE, Apart. 29.—New has been received here
that the revolt of Mustapha Pasha of Scutari, and the
Albanians who had joined him, is making rapid progress,
several districts in Bosnia are also in a state of insurrection.
WA asAw, MARCH 5.—A1l the information rece:ved
ere announces that the Russian army is still retreating at
all points. It is said that one of our officer., Count Fredro,
has been killed in a combat with the Cossacks. The
Municipal Council of Warsaw has given notice notice that
the sale of grain in the magnines of Warsaw is going to
take place.

The State Gazette contains an official report of the
operations of the Generalissimo Skrzynecki, dated head-
quarters Zendrzejon, the 2d of May. This bulletin
confirms the previous affairs, giving great praise
to the valour of the Polish troops, the Generalissimo ex-
pressing his sorrow that in several places the pestilential
fever has been brought by the Russian troops. Several
doctors who wer,r sent to the lazaretto of Mienia have peen
roacie prisoners, bat at the same time it gives great praise to
Marshal Diebirseh for or!ering care to be taken of 50 of
the woundid Poles at Minsk.

The Austrian: Observer of the 7th of May gives a de-
tached account of the dill rent battles which Dwernicki
Lad with the Russians from the 20th of April to the 2Sth
of the same month, confirming the various statements
previously received. The da.es from Berlin in this paper
are not so late as previously received from Hamburg.
The review of the National Guards has taken place at
the Champ de Mars. His Majesty, accompanied by the
Duke of Orleans and the Duke of Nemours, were received
with great acclamations. Near 100,000 troops were pre-
sent. The review lasted until half-past six o'clock, when
the King retired, greeted by the whole of the populace.
TOULON, MAY 10.—The English. brig Phenomena,
which I advised you of its arrival in our roads, has left for
Marseilles. It appears that the despatches brought by her
have been sent by the telegraph to Paris, and are satisfac-
tory in regard to the reparation demanded from Portugal,
as the orders received yesterday by telegraph orders that
the armaments should cease in this port; and it is said
that the two sail of the line and three frigates are not to
sail for Lisbon this week.

The following are extracts from Brussels and
Gelman Papers received this morning :

BRUSSELS, MAY 14.—A Briti,h Cabinet messenger
passed through this city last night, with despatches from
Vienna for London.

The absence of Lord Ponsonby will not be long, for
his Excellency has retained his apartments in the Hotel de
Bellevue till his return.

We learn from good authotity that the English Minister
Lord Grey has announced to our Commissioners, that
Prince Leopold would accept of the integrity if our terri-
tory was guaranteed to us; that this affair might be ami-
cably arranged by an indemnity to he paid by Belgium to
Holland : be asked them what indemnity Belgium would
be disposed to offer ? Our Commissioners are said to have
replied, that they had no instructions on this point ; and
it is affirmed that the object of tt e despatches brought by
M. Hauwareti was to ask the Government for these in-
structions.

We can positively affirm that Lord Ponsonby before his
departure showed a letter, announcing that the Prince of
Saxe Coburg was inclined to accept the Crown.
M. de Brouckere, one of our Commissioners in London,
arrived at Brussels the day before yesterday.
Prince Leopold continues tube most favourably disposed.
The great obstahle is no longer Luxemburg but Limburg;
and it is on this point that the negotiation turns. M. de
Brouckere has come to Brussels for farther instruction on
this head, but has been anticipated by M. Devaux, who
set out for London on Monday night. The journey of Lord
Ponsonhy is with the same view. The Government, as
well as the whole Belgic nation, remains invariable, and
we are assured that the instructions given to M. Devaux
are conceived in this spirit.
For these two or three days the Courier has talked of
M. Robaulx as Minister. We are able to affirm that that
gentleman does not at all aspirl to the office of Minister ;
he has even declared to one of our editors, that if an offer
were made him be would not hesitate a moment to re-
fuse it.

The Journal of Breda announced some time ago that
the Belgic Government is inclined to enter into an ar-
rAngement with Holland. This news, which was expected
by all the Dutch Journals, hos been received with joy in
Holland, and according to a private letter from Amsterdam
of the Sth of May it had a favourable effect on the funds.
We expect with impatience the publication of the letter
addressed to the Dutch Government, it is destined to pro-
duce a great impression in Holland.
The Police of Brussels arrested the day before yesterday
a person designated as an exciter of disorders. He was
arrested in a public-house, and it is said that he bad about
him 1,100 florins.

ANTWERP, MAY 13.—The navigation up the river,
which was intercepted by the Dutch squadron, was made
free again yesterday afternoon.
AILINICIT, MAY 9.—We are positively assured that the
Russian legation here has received from Vienna official in-
telligence chat the' Polish General Dwernicki, after having
been defeated by General Rudiger, fled with 5000 men
into the Austrian territory where they were disarmed.
The Polish soldiers are sent to Transylvania ; the officers
to different places in Austria. The cannon and arms were
given up by the Austrian authorities to General Rudiger.
BERLIN, MAY s.—Our accounts from the Theatre of
War in Poland are very scanty. We have nothing authen-
tic respecting the positions or the strength of the two
armies. In Warsaw the issue of a battle which was con-
sidered to be near at hand was anxiously looked for.
From St. Petersburgh we learn that the Emperor has
positively declined the mediation in the affairs of Poland
which England and France conjointly offered, and that the
most colossal measures are vowed in all Russia, in order,
in a short time, to put down the insurrection by force
of arms.