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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1831.

The Committee on the Reform Bill was re-
sumed last night, when, for the third time, the
discussion of the 21st clause was continued, and,
fortunately, concluded. As the most compli-
cated portions of the measure are now got over,
it is to be hoped the House will proceed swim-
mingly on to the close.

The subject of the Irish yeomanry was again
brought before the notice of the House of Com-
mons last night by Mr. LANIBErtT, who pre-
sented two petitions from the county of Wex-
ford,—the one from Protestants and the other
from Catholics—praying that that obnoxious
force might be disarmed and remodelled. The
Hon. Member stated, among other thing 9, that
he had made enquiries into the Newtownbarry
affair, and was compelled to pronounce it " not
only a gross and wanton aggression, but
a deliberate and premeditated massacre."
This called up Mr. MAXWELL, who denied
some of the former statements of Mr. LAMBERT,
and spoke of a document which he held in his
hand, signed by forty Magistrates of the county
of Wexford, to the effect that, if Government
disarmed the yeomanry, a separation of Ireland
from England would be almost certain to follow.
Mr. O'CONNELL, in animated terms, insisted
that the continuance of this obnoxious corps
would be the means of prolonging the agitation
and distress of the sister country, and assured
the Government that they could not serve
the party spirit of the Irish yeomanry,
and at the same time benefit Ireland. Mr.
DAWSON advocated the necessity of continu-
ing the corps in its present state, and dwelt
with much vehemence on what he called the un-
constitutional cabal of the Irish Members. Mr.
GRATTAN set the Right Hon. Member for
Harwich to rights on this point ; and Mr.
STANLEY, while he regretted that in the case of
the Wexford yeomanry there should be an ex-
clusive Protestant system, while they were sur-
rounded by a Catholic population ; observed that
though Government were not prepared to disarm
the Irish yeomanry for the fault of a few members
ofthe corps ; yet, that if any one instance should be
brought forward of neglect of duty, the Marquis of
ANGLESEA should be written to, to express his
opinion of such misconduct in the most prompt
and decisive manner. After some further dis-
cussion, Mr. LAMBERT, in defence of his asser-
tion that the Newtownbarry affair was a wanton
and premeditated massacre, said that a ‘, friend
of his had written to him upon the subject—a
friend who was a Protestant, and a man of great
wealth and respectability, and of unblemished
reputation. He stated, in his letter, that on
riding into the village he saw a horror-stricken
husband bending over the body of his wife,
whose womb had been torn open, and whose
child, thus slaughtered in the womb, lay protrud-
ing from her body upon the ground.—(Hear,
hear.) Notwithstanding this horrible transac-
tion, it was with the greatest difficulty that the
Coroner's Jury could be got to pronounce a
verdict of manslaughter against the atrocious
butcher who murdered that unfortunate woman.
—(Hear.) The people at the time cried
Shame 1' but he persevered in his barbarity ;
and, though this was as notorious as the sun at
noon-day, yet it passed away unnoticed, and the
murderer boldly walks forth in public unpunished
for his crime, and his victim unavenged.—
(Hear, hear.)" All comment on this fact is
superfluous. It speaks for itself. We beg
our readers however to bear in mind, that
it occurred not among the Ashantees, nor the
New Zealanders ; that it was not an atrocity
committed by a Russian !HAW on his Polish

victim, but by a Protestant yeoman on an un-
offending Catholic female, and that female a wife
and mother ; that it took place in Ireland scarce
two months since, and that up to this very hour
it remains unavenged
The discussion of last night on this sad
affair will not, we fear, be productive of much
good to Ireland. It was wholly of an ex-
asperating character, and will have the effect
of widening yet further the breach between
Catholic and Protestant. If Mr. O'CoN-
riELL, who headed one party was intemperate,
Mr. DAWSON, who headed the other, was
still more so ; while Mr. STANLEY, who
came forward as a sort of peace maker, was
unlucky enough to offend one faction while he
only half-conciliated the other. But such must
ever be the consequence of half measures. It is
the curse of Ireland that, with the single excep-

tion of the Emancipation Act, the remedies pro-
posed for her relief have always been of a
bit-by-bit, a half-and-half nature. She has
never been legislated for in a bold, liberal,
and comprehensive spirit. First one partial
nostrum has been proposed, then a second,
then a third, and this while the patient is
in the last stage of disease. The complicated
character of Ireland's disorder seems in fact

to have paralysed the whole political faculty.
All have failed who have hitherto attempted her
cure, and we much fear that Mr. STANLEY is not
destined to be the first successful practitioner.
He is wavering, and undecided how to act.
He will, and he will not, prescribe ; is doubtful
where he should be decided ; spiritless where
he should be energetic. First he will remodel
the yeomanry, then he will have nothing to do
with it ; now he is half of opinion that severe
measures should be adopted, and now he is all
for delay, and letting things run their own
course. Meantime the agitation in Ireland con-
tinues ; the blast increases to a hurricane ;

the breach between Catholic and Protestant be-
comes daily wider and wider ; while Government,
which by upholding neither, hopes to conciliate
each of the two factions, experiences the usual
luck of neutrals, and deeply offends both.
We repeat, that half measures will never do for
Ireland. The theatre of action is too stormy for
such experiments. She must be treated in a vigor-
ous, and above all in an enlightened spirit, the
remedy being duly proportioned to the disease.
The Catholic population must be taught to
feel that they are at home, not that they arc
strangers in their native land. Government must
disabuse them of the notion that they are not fit
to be trusted, and that the Protestants alone are
the sworn friends of. England. But this is a
work of time. Granted ; then the sooner it is
begun to be acted upon, the better. Every day
lost in the attempt to provide an adequate remedy
for Ireland, is a day gained to the cause of in.
tolerance, and heaps fuel on the conflagration
which though now smouldering, threatens hourly
to break out.

There is no fresh news from Poland, though,
as the two armies are within sight of each other,
we may hourly expect to hear of a great battle
having been fought, unless the reported nego.
ciations between the Commanders-in-Chief of
the Polish and Russian armies puts a stop to
all further effusion of blood. On the subject
of this rumoured negotiation, which, by the bye,
rests on no very competent authority, the Mentz
Gazette says, " the independence of Poland is
to serve as the basis of the treaty." Of course
full and unqualified independence is here implied,
otherwise the negotiations, it is plain, will end
in nothing. The Messager des C'hambres speaks
of a circular which has been addressed by the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh to those at Vienna
and Berlin, requesting that they will join Russia
in attaining the common object, the subjugation
of Poland, in consequence of the enormous sa-
crifices that she has made " to the common
interest of all legitimate Sovereigns." If this be
true—and we see no reason to doubt it—it

clearly proves that NICHOLAS is beginning to
get sick of the war and doubtful of its issue,
and that his immense power and resources have
been most extravagantly over-rated by all
Europe. The same Journal says that the corps
already, exceeding 30,000 men of all arms, now
remaining in Belgium, are marching to re-pass
the frontiers, and re-enter the garrisons which
they occupied before the expedition.

That dreadful pest, the cholera, is striding
with a giant's pace across the Continent, blasting
and destroying all that comes within reach of
its influence. It is now at the gates of Vienna.
The Austrian Observer says, " In some parts
of Hungary disturbances are said to have broken
out in consequence of the measures against the
cholera, which indeed caused a great inconve-
nience. The cholera is approaching nearer to
the capital on the side of Hungary, and symp-
toms of it are said to be observed at Bruck, on
the Leptha and Bohran, only a few leagues from
Vienna. If this should be true, the EMPEROR
and the Imperial Family will probably soon
leave
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prepared for their
reception. The Foreign Ambassadors and the
Imperial Court will also take up their abode near
the Palace." These great men make extraordinary
haste to get out of the way. The mighty Monarchs
of Russia and Austria are particularly mindful of
self, and snuff danger with the keen, unerring
scent of a pointer. The Emperor of RUSSIA
locks himself up at Peterhoff; and his Royal
Ally of Austria meditates an elopement to Schou-
brunn ; and yet these are the sort of men by whom
Poland and Italy are enslaved, and Europe is
kept in awe ! Whatever other defects may
be urged against NAPOLEON, he was not a crea-
ture of this calibre. He find at least personal
courage. lie did not scud from danger, like a
schooner before the wind, but looked it boldly
in the face, and grappled with it, When the
plague overtook his army in Egypt, who so bold,
so regardless of self, so jealous of the safety of
his soldiers ? First and last in the hospitals,
ever by the side of the sick, where consolation
was most :needed, he shamed the timid, roused

the slothful, inspired the desponding, and set
an example to his medical staff, which rendered
it, says the Duke of RovlGo, the most efficient
at that day in Europe :

" VIENNA, AUG. 13.—1 n refutation of the report which
has been spread that the city of Vienna is to be surrounded
by a sanitary cordon, notice is hereby given that in case
the cholera should break out in Vienna the city will not be
separated from the country ; and should symptoms of the
disorder manifest themselves i❑ the country, the latter will
not be cut off from the city, but the communications will
remain open.
(Signed) " JOHN TALATZKO,
" Chevalier of Geslietica, President of the Govern-
ment of Lower Austria."

AUGUST 13.—The Exchange has been very agitated
to-day. Various reports were circulated and the funds fell
considerably. Alarming reports from Frankfort, announc-
ing the victory of the Dutch over the Belgians, and the
occupation of Luxemburg by a Prussian corps, for the
purpose of supporting the operations of his Dutch
Majesty, have chiefly contributed to the great fall.
On the other hand, letters from Cracow say that,
on the sth of August, there bad been a serious
action between the Russian and Polish armies, in which
the latter had the advantage. The speculators for a fall
endeavoured to turn this to their advantage, on the pro-
spect of a prolongation of the war in Poland. Even let-
ters from Genoa, which positively announce the evacuation
of Algiers by the French troops, are circulated as grounds
for making baste to sell, though no person can show any
connection between the expedition to Algiers and the public
credit of the continental Powers. To this it was added
that the Emperor of Russia was ill.
In some parts of Hungary disturbances are said to have
broken out in consequence of the measures against the
cholera, which indeed caused a great inconvenience. The
cholera is approaching nearer to the capital on the side of
Hungary, and symptoms of it are said to be observed at
Bruck, on the Leptha and Bohran, only a few leagues from
Vienna. If this should be true, the Emperor acd the Im-
perial Family will probably soon leave Baden for the Pa-
lace at Schonbrunn, where every thing has been prepared
for their reception. The foreign Ambassadors and the
Imperial Court will also take up their abode near the Palace.
VIENNA, Aua. 13.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 753, ;
Four per Cents. 63 3-sths ; Bank Shares, 929 9-10ths.

By the Brazil mail, which arrived this morn-
ing, we have received Papers from Rio de
Janeiro to the 7th of June, from which we give
the following extracts :

RIO DE JANEIRO.-The Diario do Governo, from
the 16th of May to the '7th of June, is entirely filled with
a vast number of official notices from the several depart-
ments of the Administration relative to the internal affairs
of the Empire. The number of June 3 contains the fol-
lowing proclamation of the Municipal Chamber :
" Since the glorious political events of the ever-memo-
rable 6th and '7th of April, which are due to your heroism,
and which announce such flittering and brilliant prospects
to the great Brazilian family, the Municipal Chamber has
seen with regret that your minds are not yet easy, perhaps
because the expected ameliorations do not proceed with the
rapidity that you think necessary to your welfare. The Mun-
icipal Chamber recognizes as well as you the necessity of re-
tbrms of the evils which the Government purposely tolerated
for your destruction; but you as well as the Municipal must
perceive the impossibility of effecting, in so short a time,
ameliorations and reforms which nece,sarily must proceed
in the course laid down by the Constitution to which we
have sworn. The Municipal Chamber suffering from the
same evils as yourselves, is going to submit to our worthy
representatives the chief subjects of your displeasure. Let
us trust in the wisdom of our General Assembly, which
has given such repeated proofs of its devotion to the wel-
fare of Brazil. Let us hope in the wise measures of our re-
presentatives, who being chosen from among ourselves,
cannot have interests different from ours. They
know our wants, and will put an end to them. Be not
precipitate, do not suffer yourselves to be deceived, if you
desire the happiness of your country, if you desire that
Brazil should be a nation of heroes. You were such in
the field of honour, and you will still be so if prudence
regulates your conduct. Support the Constitution and
sacred code—be obedient to the laws—respect the con-
stituted authorities ; it is thus only that you will be happy ;
and on the contrary, hurried from precipice to precipice,
we shall fall into total ruin. And shall this be the result
of the many labours, of the many dangers to which you
have exposed yourselves fur the salvation of our country ?
Shall this be the spectacle which we shall exhibit to
civilized nations which now behold us with astonish-
ment ? Certainly not, you are Brazilians, and the nations
shall still admire your prudence and your respect for the laws.
Viva our Holy religion, the Brazilian nation, the Gene-
ral Legislative Assembly, the Constitutional Emperor Don
Pedro 11., the brave Fluminenses.

(Signed) " FRANCISCO LUIZ DE COSTA
GUIMARAES,
" President ad interim, and the other Members of
the Municipal Chamber.
"Palace of the Municipal Chamber, May 28, 1831."

We learn from the German Journals, as co-
pied into the French Papers of Wednesday, that
the Magistrates of Konigsberg have addressed a
representation to the King of PRUSSIA on the
subject of the cholera, wherein they warn his
MAJESTY of the danger which his Government
was incurring by the permission of a contagious
intercourse with the Russian army

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O' CL 0 CE.

- _
A Brazil mail has arrived this morning, but it is of an
old date. Letters from Pernambuco and Bahia are of a
later date than previously received—the former to the 2d
July and the latter to the 26th June. All was tranquil at
the above places.
With the exception of the above we have no arrivals,
consequently there is a great dearth of information.
We hear that an express from Paris has arrived, the
contents of which have not yet transpired : bad it been of
importance the Funds would have experienced its effects,
but they are nearly at the same price as yesterday. Con-
sols, which left off at 82 to opened at 82k, and at pre-
sent they are 82i for the Account.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet.

HALF-PAST ONE.
By the express from Paris we have received the prices
of the French Funds, which are, Three per Cents., 571.
35c., left off 57f. 40c. ; Five per Cents., 881. 50c. All was
perfectly tranquil in the above capital, and the project of
the Law of Peerage was expected to go off smoothly, as
most of the Deputies had turned, and wished the law to
remain as before.

We have no other arrivals to the present hour, nor is
there any expected, except one from Holland, which will
arrive late this evening.
Consols, during the morning, have been fluctuating from
821 down to 82 ; at present they may be quoted at 82 to
1, with little doing.
The Foreign Market is in a state of stagnation ; scarcely
a bargain has been done.

TWO O'CLOCK.

We have this moment received the Journal des Debats,
of Thursday, which only contains the following, from the
Cracow Official Gazette, inserted in the Berlin paper,
of the 17th :

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service was performed in the army, and the Generalissimo
went down the ranks to encourage the troops. Field-
Marshal Paskewitsch appears to be manoeuvring to evade
a combat, and has retreated before our posts. The Poles
have passed the Rawka, and their head-quarters are at
Bossimou. It is expected that they will force the Russians
to give them battle. The Russian troops which occupy
Podlaski have made a new movement, to approach Praga.
General Golowin, who commands, has sent a flag of truce
for an exchange of prisoners. The insurrection continues
in the environs of Witepsei. The defeat in the move-
ments of Tolstoi, the rising of the Vistula, has carried
away the bridges, on which Rudiger's troops were to pass."
No other news of importance.

THREE O'CLOCK

Consols, 821

COURT OF THE REGENT ORLEANS.--The
Duchesses and Princesses of the Court partook of his dis-
graceful taste, and frequently got drunk. The mother of
the Regent, CHARLOTTE ELizanEnt of Bavaria, in her
letters, speaks, without blaming it, of the practice which
the ladies of the Court bad adopted of drinking to excess.
" Madame the Duchess DE BOURBON," says she, " can
drink a great deal without being intoxicated ; her daughters
wish to imitate her, but their heads are not strong enough ;
they are, in general, somewhat less mistresses of themselves
than their mother."--Memoira of the House of Bourbon.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY')

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, AUGUST 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from the
river, and remain, the Aris, Roes, for Miramichi ; Brancb°
and Asia, for Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the
Julie, Rosse, from Charente.
FALMOUTH, Auc UST 25.—Wind W.—Arrived the
Mary Pelham packet, from Rio Janeiro, sailed Bth Jove;
from Bahia 26tb, and froinPernambuco 4th ult ;'spoke:,
the 18th inst., in lat. 47. long. 20., the Zephyr pact
from hence to Halifax and Bermuda. Arrived off t'
Wight, the Spartan, Sanders, from Nevis.
YARMOUTH, AUGUST 25.—Arrived the Minerva, S'Y

merville, from Quebec.
BRISTOL, AUGUST 26.—Arrived the Harriet, Allef:
from Barbadoes ; and Peter Proctor, Perry, from New V:Ar.:
MILFORD, AUGUST 25.—Arrived the Thomas, Re—,:
Newcastle, Ridley; Clyde, Cooper; June, Coates;
Maria, Croeklaw ; Alcine, Wright ; William and
Thrif ; and Elizabeth, Wells, from St. Petersburgh;
Liam and Henry, Rea, from Memel.
STANDGATE CREEK, AUGUST 26.—Arrived the Ms:
tibia, Davie ; Barletta, Frimsden Lambton, LangleYl',
Catherine and Ann, Norie ; Brilliant, Nlordaunt • 134,
lona, Smith ; Perseverance, M'Duff; Revd', Bolt'
Grieulous, M'Cutcheon ; Reform, Stewart; Ellen, Thotar
son ; Good Intent, Cook, and Adah, Martin, from St'
Petersburgh; George and Anne, Carne; Active, Patteroa;
and Elizabeth, Batty, from Archangel ; Zero, Hunter;
Wemyss, Fowler ; Ellen, Owen ; and Alert, Angus, /0
Riga.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 25.—Arrived the Hibernia, KOPP'
and Vicissitude, Brown, from New Orleans ; Asleona, TiPti
dale, from Quebec ; Livingston, Pearce, from Bengal; an
Norna, Leggett, from Maranham.
WHITEHAVEN, AUG. 25.—Arrived the Shang°
Beeby, from Quebec.
GazEivocx, AUG. U.—Arrived the Joseph 10916
Ritchie, from Quebec ; the Welcome, Buchanan, fro

Charleston.
DunLitt, Auu. 25.—Arrived the George and Thou 366
from Barbadoes ; Maria, Leary, from Quebec.
HUMBER, AUG. 20.—Arrived the Effort, Stafford, 013
Regent, Sekard, from St.Petersburgh ; Perseverance, Pesri
son, from Archangel ; Samuel and Sarah, Redhead;
Richard and Thomas, Haughton, from Wyburg.

The Charlotte, Hags, from St. Andrews's, N.B.► w
on shore in Aran, yesterday with damage.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.
ith '
There was a great supply at this morning's market, 0•0
dull trade. Cabbages, Turnips' Coleworts, Damsons, amine
kinds of Plums, were cheaper, Onions dearer, than on tins
se'nnight ; prices wiseother stationary. „
s. su• a 6
Potatoes (cwt.) 3 0 to 6 0 Spinage (half-sieve) ... 0 401 6
Cabbages (12 heads) 0 9 1 6 Green Pease
Cauliflowers 2 0 5 0 French Beans 0 6 50
Horse Hadish(bundle) 5 0 8 0 Young Apples 3 0 70
Brocoli 0 9 1 6 Pear' 5 0 30
Celery 0 8 1 0 Common Green Gages 1 6 36
Carrots 12 bunches) 4 0 6 0 Black l'lums 1 9 4 6
10
Young Turnips 1 6 26i oDamsons 2 0 vil
Turnip Radishes 1 0 1 6lSpan. Cliesnuts (peck) 6 6O
Onions 2 6 401 French ditto
Coleworts or Greens... 1 0 2 0 Spanish Hazlenuts - ,0s A
Leeks 1 0 1 6 french Walnuts 6 0 '4O
2Seville Oranges (100)... 8 0 12 0 Brazilian Nutso 0
6
Lemons 8 0 14 0 Eng. Grapes (per 1b.)... 4 0 10
Cos Lettuces (score) 0 8 1 4 Foreign 0 8 10
Cabbage ditto 0 3 0 8 Cherries Oo
10 Cucumbers (brace).... 0 2 1 0 Filberts l6
Radishes (12 hands)... 0 3 0 6 Sea-kail (pummet)
Peaches (dozen) :3 8 12 0 Endive 0 6 0 k
Green Gages 1 6 2 6 Sallads 0 2 40
Melons (each) ..... ...... 4 0 10 0 Orleans Plums 1 3 09
1 Pine Apples (lb.) BOlO 0 Mulberries (pottle) .... 0 4