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London, England, 1831-04-14 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1831.

By the Paris Express of this morning we have
news of considerable importance. 'We learn, first,
that the heroic, the high-minded Poles, have ob-
tained another brilliant victory over their bat barian
oppressors, from whom they took 6,000 prisoners
and 26 pieces of cannon ; secondly, that the
reported insurrection in Lithuania and Volhynia
is confirmed to the fullest extent; and, la.tly, that
the Austrians, having restored every thing to the
old footing, have refused to evacuate the Papal
States. What will France say to this ? We
should not omit to mention the important fact that
the Emperor IslicttoLAs has dissolved, by an Impe-
rial Ukase, thefive Regiments of Finland Carbineers,
and the whole Staff of that province—a clear proof
that he is in dread of the spread of liberalism through-
out Finland :

According to the Constitutionnel of yesterday a warm
altercation took place at Rome between the French and
AustrianEAmbassadors and Cardinal Bernetti, on account
of the Austrians, who, it is said, will not evacuate the
Papal States, after having restored everything to the old
footing. Threats of war have been held out. It is said
disturb tnces have broken out at Pavia, but they were im-
mediately put down by the armed force.
The Turin Gazette announces that the health of the
King of Sardinia continues to improve.
The Nurernburg Correspondent publishes the following
from Berlin, dated the 3d inst.—" The insurrection in
Lithuania and Volhynia is fully confirmed by official ac-
counts received on the Ist inst. by the Government. The
Polish General, Uminski, who some time ago left Warsaw
with his brigade of cavalry, escaped, by skilful manoeuvre.•,
the vigilance of the Russian army, arid made a sudden
irruption into Lithuania, where the peasants received him
with open arms. The insurrection, it is said, has already
extended towards Minsk, and the people have recovered
the arms which had been takes from them. GrOdno, and
several other places were in full insurrection. General
Umiuski bad already greatly reinforced his corps, and is
eadeaiouring to organize the peasants on a military plan.
This is the same General who was a state prisoner in the
Prussian fortress of Glogari, and made his escape at the
time of the Polish insurrection.

The official Gazette of St. Petershurgh of March 26,
announces that the Emperor has dissolved, by a Ukase,
the five* regiments of Finland carboneers, and the whole
staff of that province.
A letter froM Madrid of the sth April mentions that
" discord preyails among the Spanish Ministers. The
Vitra-Royalist faction has been strengthened by the addi-
tion of a new member. The Minister Salmon could not
see without disgust the children of Ballasteros, his col-
league, richly provided for, while he obtained nothing for
his own numerous relations. He has therefore deserted
the standard of his rich colleague, to go over to the pkty
of Cillomarde. Ballasteros and Salazar are now the only
two men who represent modera?e measures in the Cabinet."
" The, Government," says the National, " have just
received despatches from Marshal Maison, our Ambassador
it 'Vienna, stating that the Cabinet of Austria, after having
received the news of,the capture of Ancona, arid the de-
feat of the insurgents, still persisted in sending its troops
upon Rome, in order to occupy the rest of the states
of the Church, leaving, the evacuation of those pro-
vinces to future regulations."
Accounts from Hanover of the 3d instant mention that
the Minister of State, Ompteda, bad been appointed Hano-
;erian Minister to England. About one-half of the
federal contingent, namely, three regiments of cavalry,
eight battalion, of infantry, and several battalions of artil-
lery, had received orders to hold themselves in readiness
to Inarch.by the 15th instant. The proposition to request
the King to give to the country a Constitution suited to
the times, has been adopted. by the second Chamber of
the state,.
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',spagne, 12 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 63% 64 MA ; Rente Per.
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uelle d'Espagne, 44%.4t 441,E 1/2 3i. Exchange on London,
011 C month, paper, 25E 10c. ; three months, paper, 21f. 90c.

We received this morning Brussels Papers, the
following are extracts :

BaussEts, APRIL 9.—M. Firmin Rngier, Secretary
of the Legation at Paris, who returned to Brussels a few
days ago, set out again late last night for Paris, on an er-
traordinary mission, as the bearer of clear and precise ques-
tions from our Cabinet to that of the Palais Royal. We
learn from good authority that the Government will shortly
r?ake a call on the volunteers. They will be formed into
eight.l4sitalions,sibich will be organized immediately, and
sent to time delidiliiirmed near the points threatened.
The following paragraph is in the Ecloireur :—" The
partition of Belgium is at length decided ; a new Pro-
tocol, signed by the Five Powers, has at length been re-

ceived at the office of our Minister fur Foreign Affairs,
which reviews in the face of Europe the infamous crime
.committed in the last century against Poland. According
to this protocol, Hainanlt. Namur, and Brussels, are ad-
judged to France. The Two Flanders (East and West),
Marstricht, and Luxemburg, are replaced under the yoke
of Holland, and the Province of Leige is assigned to
Prussia."

Orders have been given to send artillery to Luxemburg.
Three Cabinet messengers have passed through this
city, all corning from Paris with despatches for Antwerp.
One of our journals says that General Belliard left this
city yesterday, and that Lord Ponsonby will also soon
leave us.
It is affirmed that serious troubles have broken out at
Lodelinsart.
A large quantity of powder and cannon-balls arrived
here yesterday from Mon:, on its way to Antwerp.
On the sth, in the evening, there were riots at Arlon.
The mob proceeded to the house of M. Desprez, suspected
of Orangism, who was forced to fly.
It is reported that a nurchant at Mones has received a
letter from Luxemburg announcing that the troops of the
German Confederation entered the Grand Duchy on the
6th. To arms ! to arms! This is the only cry we can
utter, if the news is true.
Several persons concerned in plundering the house of
Mademoiselle Coppeau at Namur have been arrested.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 11.—We learn from Mayence that
Belgium is finally excluded from the navigation of the
Rhine by the port of Antwerp.
A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, of Bth April, says—
" It is not the landwehr of the Rhenish provinces that
has beew ordered to be ready to take the field by the 16th
instant, as was reported, but on'y the reserve of the regu-
lar troops of the 16th division, which "makes part of the
contingent of the army of the Confederation, which has
been called out. It is assembling at Treves."

The Belgian refugees, among whom is General Vander-
missen, received orders yesterday to quit the left bank of

le Rhine.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 12.—Count Felix de Merode has
written a letter to the Minister of the Interior, expressing
his wish that the sum of 16,000 florins, which is allotted
to him as one of the members of the late Provisional Go-
vernment, may he employed in the erection of a monu-
ment in the Place des Martyrs.

There has been some agitation at Tirlernont, which hap-
pil) has not been followed by any serious consequences.
Some persons were disposed to attack the house of a tax-
gatherer, accused of being an Orangist, but were induced
to desist.

M. d'Aershot has again asked to be re-called, on account
of ill health.

Five hundred volunteers have Net out to-day to join the
army.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

The law relative to the loan was adopted by a majority
of one hundred and thirteen to five.

SITTING Or APRIL 10.

M. Ch. de Broushere, Minister of Finance, presented
a project of law, with a communication from the Govern-
ment, to the following effect :
" GENTLEMEN,-You have authorised the Govern-
ment to make a loan of twelve millions of florins in order to
accelerate our preparations for defence. We have under-
stood your intention.
" I am able to announce to you that the keepers of the
forests are enrolled in the regiments, and that eight
battalions of volunteers will be vet), shortly formed at
Namur, whence they will proceed to the Grand Duchy.
" The first division (Ban) of the civic guards atnounts
to above 50,000 men, and will soon be made moveable.
These reasons induce the application which I make to you
for a supp'ementary credit of six millions of florins, to be
applied to the expences of the war debt.
" In the name of the Belgic People, the National Con-
gress decrees— _
" A spplemenary credit of six millions is granted to the
Minister of War for the extraordinary expences of the second
quarter of 1831."—Referred to the Sections for con-
sideration.
The President requested the Assembly to have an
important proposal read, which had been laid on the table
at the beginning of the siting; it is signed by twenty
members of the Congress. The purport of it was to
authorise the Government, in consequence of the critical
circumstances in which Belgium is placed, to employ
superior foreign officers, and give them commands in the
Belgian army.
SITTING OF APRIL 11.

The proposed supplementary credit of six millions was
voted unanimously.
M. Jottrand made a report, in the name of the Central
Committee, on the proposal of the admission of foreign
officers. This propoial gave rise to •ery long and ani-
mated debates in this sitting and that of the 12th, in
which the remarkable circumstance occurred that some of
the Members who had signed it, declared that they now
opposed it, as contrary to the Constitution.
M. Lebeau said, it was a most strange thing that twenty
Members should present a proposal, in which, the Ministry
had no concern, and that now that the Minister adopted it,
several of its authors opposed it
M. Gentlehien, one of the authors, said that the debates
of the last two days had induced him to change his opinion.
It was at length agreed that the Government should be
authorised to employ a General-in-Chief and some other
foreign officers, who are to take an oath to defend the
independence end the integrity of Belgium, to obey the
laws, &c. Eighty Members voted for, and forty-two
against the law.
The German Papers by the Flanders Mail, viz., Frank-
fort Gazettes to the 10th of April, and the Allgenteine
Zeitung to the Bth (inclusive), contain only the news
from Warsaw to the Ist of April, already known. The
Prussian State Gazette of April 7 (only one day later
than those received by the Hamburg steam-boat) has no
news from Poland.

The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND'S late circular to
his tenants must not be permitted to pass without
comment. It is one of the most insulting—the most
arrogant—the most despotic Manifestos we ever read.
His Grace, not contented with opposing Reform in
his own person—and for this hostility, though we
regret it, we do not blame him, on the principle that
every individual has a right to his own opinion—has
actually commissioned agents to bully his tenants
into his own way of thinking, and compel them,
nolens volens, to sign petitions against Reform. His
Grace, forsooth, " requires the names of tenants who
do not sign," in order, we presume, that he may
visit their contumacy with his high and mighty dis-
pleasure ! What effrontery is this ! Are the old feudal
times brought back on us ? Are the people to have
no opinion of their own ? Are they to thinkspeak
—feel—decide—only as their masters dictate ? Are
they to be looked on as imbeciles incapable of re-
flection ; as knaves to whom conscience is unknown,
and honesty a standing jest? If so, it is high time
to change the system in lobo ; to dispute every inch
of ground with the boroughmongers ; to insist on
Reform to the last, the minutest fraction.

His Grace " requires the names of tenants who
do not sign!" Indeed. And so did his Majesty
the Emperor NICHOLAS require the names of
those among the Poles who refused to obey. his
Manifestos! We trust this hint will be sufficient.

While on the subject of this undue assumption of
authority on the part of the great boroughmong erg'
we will just beg leave most respectfully to re-Commend
certain officious ladies of rank and influence, not to
go about, among their numerous tradesmen and de-
pendents at the west end, with peremptory re-
quests that they will sign no Reiorm petition.
We will recommed them also, -for the future, to say
nothing about—we quote their own words—'" the
unprincipled nature of the measure ;" or to remark,
when they chance to see, as they did last week, the
Times and The Sun slumbering together in peaceful
fellowship on the table of a respectable tradesman,
that thongh all the liberal Journals were corrupt, yet
that these two were pre-eminent in infamy, and
" deserved to be burnt by the hands of the common
hangman." We will recommend these titled Ladies
—we- know their names, and if necessary could
repeat theii conversation—to confine themselves
henceforth to their own appropriate and domestic
sphere; to remember that a still tongue maketh a
wise head ; and that even should they and their
aristocratic relations persist in putting their foolish
threats of going. abioad for ever into execution, the
country can still manage to go",on, and even flourish.
without them. Surely England is not so badly ofi

for an aristocracy, but that
.she can afford now and
then to spare a few of the Order !

Her MAJESTY held a Drawing-room this day at
St. James's. The company, which was more nu-
merous than on any recent occasion, began to set
down shortly after one o'clock, and had not finished
when we went to press. The scene was very brilliant.

Despatches have been received this morning at the
Foreign Office, from the British Ambassadors at
France and Holland.

Ministers last night explained satisfactorily enough,
that if the House persisted in demanding its full
complers►ent of Members, such Members should be
given, not to any of the rotten bcroughs proposed
to be disfranchised, but to the more wealthy, po-
pulous, and deserv'ng constituencies. We trust
henceforth they will be firm, and yield to no further
innovations on the principle of the Bill. They have
the unlimited confidence of the county, and cannot
possibly have aught to dread from the clamour of
the interested few. Meantime, we can assure them
that the people are wonderfully sensitive and jealous
of the slightest symptom of alteration in the Bill.

By reference to the proceedings at the County of
Meath Reform Meeting—a report of which will be
found in another column—our readers will see that
the Marquis of HERTFORD, who expressed himself
strongly in favour of the Reform Bill, advocated
it chiefly on the principle that the " Aristocracy were
for it," and that iti.was so novel a thing to see the
Aristocracy and the people united, that he was con-
vinced the measure which occasioned sues union
must be right. This is correct reasoning. But correct
as it is, it is not without its draw-back. Why
should the Aristocracy and the people ever be
divided ? Surely the interests of both are, or should
be, the same ! It is the duty of the Aristocracy to
conciliate, of the people to respect ; and when each
knows the limits of its proper authority, and keeps
within them, it is impossible there should be any
misunderstanding between the two parties.

The news from Belgium is somewhat more sa-
tisfactoty. There have been no disturbances since
the Gth instant, whatever some Journals may assert
to the contrary. We observe some mention made of
robbers traversing the country, and of some ravages
committei in chateaus. and farms, but we are well
assured in stating that §uch reports are without foun-
dation. Belgium is as tranquil as any country can be
which is making preparations for war, and as can be
expected at a time when the Government cannot
afford to check the warlike impulse of the people;
but this warlike exultation in no way resembles dis-
order, since it corresponds with the instructions of
the Government. As to the rumours we have spoken
of, many persons have an interest in spreading them.
Many friends of the fallen dynasty, threatened with
the popular vengeance, have quitted the country, and
retired into Prussia and France, whence they can
easily spread whatever reports may fall in with their
sympathies or resentments. There are a thousand
reasons for distrusting these reports, and we therefore
feel it a duty to express the strong conviction we
entertain of their falsehood.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY).

ROLLS COURT.

The MASTER of the ROLLS sat at the Rolls Court, Chan_
cery-lane, to.day, to hear petitions. His Honour on taking his
seat stated, that as the necessary accommodation for the sitting
of the Court at Westminster had not been made, he was afraid,
however inconvenient it might be for the bar, that he should be
under the necessity of having his sittings during the Term, at
the Rolls Court, Chancery-lane.
MORRISON v. MORRISON.
On the calling on of this petition, which stood first on the list,
his Honour expressed a wish, it being a case of some length, that
it should be postponed till to-morrow, as the Court felt anxious
to get through as great a number of petitions as possible today.
We believe the disclosures likely to be made on these petitions
are of rather a singular deseription,and of great public importance.

VICE- CHANCELL OR' S COURT.
This being the first seal after the Easter recess, his Honour,
the VICE-CHANCELLOR sat at Lincoln's Inn, and took
motions to-day, none of which were of the least public import-
ance. His Honour rose before twelve o'clock, having nothing
to proceed with, in consequence of the absence of Counsel.