The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-01 00:00:00

THE ROYAL NAVY.

1831. y, June,
Sir James Graham, as First Lord of theAdmiralt Admiralty', will see
naval officers on Saturdays, at ten o'clock.
Sir Thomas Hardy will sec naval officers on 'Tuesdays, Thurs-
days, and Saturdays at one o'clock.
Admiral Dundds will see naval officers on Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays, at one o'clock.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.
To as POST CAPTAINS—Thomas Wren Carter, Sir Thomas
Sabine Pasley, Baronet.
To an COMMANDERS—John Geary, John Fraser, William
Kelly (c) Algernon Henry Champagne Capel, Horatio Thomas
Austin, William Shepheard, Frederick Rogers, John Taylor, the
Junior Commander.
To BE LietrrENANrs—John Henry Windham, John M'Clintock
Clive, Balchen Folkes West, Robert Thornton Eyre,
Foley, Owen Stanley, Right Hon. Lord Clarence Edward Paget.
Andrew Snape Hamond, ueorge Williams, George John Hirtzel,
George Wenham Lewis, the Junior Lieutenant. Edward

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1831.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY made another
amusing exhibition of himself last night in the
House of Lords. He asserted, with whimsical pet-
tinacity, that the Ministerial Reform Bill was unpo-
pular among the constituency of Durham; and th t
the present Members would never have been return d
for that populous and influential county, had they
promulgated their opinions previous to the election.
We know not in what school his Lordship has
studied logic, but it is certainly in none that we
have ever heard of. Probably he intends to become
the founder of a school of rhetoric himself, and is
ambitious of earning a reputation for ofginality,
which we are from denying that he possesses, at
least in the style and quality of his eloquence and
reasoning. If the constituency of Durham be really
so averse to Reform and its appendage, as his
Lordship would seem to imply, how was it that
their zeal slumbered so effectually during the bustle
of the late election ? How is it that the storm
sunk into a calm—that their enthusiasm sub-
sided into apathy, at the very moment when
circumstances turned up most likely to call it into
unusual activity ? The electors of the county of
Durham must be strangely constituted in their
minds, to return Reformers to Parliament, themselves
decidedly averse to the measure. But the fact is, the
Noble Marquis has derived his information from
erroneous sources. He is himself an ardent, un-
compromising Anti-Reformer, and naturally lends a
favourable ear to the statements of those who per-
suade him that the electors of his own county are of
the same way of thinking.
In the Lower House Mr. PAGET gave notice of a
motion to the effect that all the Members of a
county should be returned by all the electors of that
county as at present, thus rendering any division of
counties into electoral districts altogether sups r-
fluous. There is much in this proposition that
deserves attention, much also to commend.
The division of counties into electoral districts
will assuredly have the effect of throwing undue
power
more or less into the hands of the great
leaders of those counties; whereas, while they re-
main undivided, they must necessarily be indepen-
dent, and return the men of their choice, unswayed
by the dictation of any one influential individual.
On the subject of the Beer Bill, the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER manfully announced his fixed de.
termination to maintain its principle raid essential
provisions. This was judicious on the part of
his Lordship; the Bill in question has scarcely
yet had fair play, arid the spirit of the oppo-
sition to it has been so obvious, and in many
cases so interested, that it would be folly to
place any premature reliance on it. In the
early part of the evening Alderman Wow) brought
forward a motion for the reduction of Government
salaries, on which occasion the Hon. Member for
Preston disburthened himself of much anecdote and
beautiful oratory. He told a story of his wife's
maid-servant which set the House in a roar. The
motion fell to the ground abruptly, notwithstanding
Mr. HUNT'S matchless eloquence.

German Papers received this morning contain
some news respecting Greece, from which it appears
that the power of CAPO DISTRIA is at a very low
ebb. The people seem to have caught the true con-
stitutional spirit, insisting► on the immediate convo-
cation of the National Assembly and the fulfilment
of their rights and liberties. Russian influence now
stands as bad a chance in Greece as in Poland.

The accounts from Poland are still encouraging—
but the conduct of Prussia in dressing up some of her
own troops in the disguise of Russians, and sending
them to join the hordes:of the barbarians, is most in-
sufferable, and should be resented as a flagrant breach
of neutrality by the Cabinets of France and England,
General GIELGUD is reported to have an army of
40,000 men in Samogitia; and CHRAPOWSKI another
to the same amount in Lithusnia, where a large
fortress called Bielsk has been captured. Each is
in communication with the other. We hear
nothing from the main army, but expect in a
few days to receive accounts that the Gene-
ralissimo has undertaken an important expedition
against the Russians. In Volhynia the good cause
also progresses favourably.
The courier from St. Petersburgh to Paris brings
accounts favourable to the Poles; but we disbelieve
the report of the EMPEROR'S clemency.