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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1831.

A Cabinet Council was, held this day at one
o'clock at the Foreign-Office, in Downing-street,
at which most of his MAJESTY'S Ministers at-

,ended.

With the suavity peculiar to him, Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL took Lord ALTHORP to book last
night for paying attention to the suggestions of
newspapers—as if they were at all times beneath
the consideration of a Statesman. This is not
the first side-wind attack that the Right Hon.
Baronet has made on the Press. Ever since he
has been out of office, and more particularly
since he has lost ground in public opinion and
descended to his fitting level ; that is to say,
taken his station as the first of those second-
rate Statesmen whose plodding habits make up
for their want of enlarged capacity ; the
Right Honourable Ex-Secretary has been
firing away his pop-guns at the Journals,
in the full and perfect conviction apparently,
that it is impossible for them to resist his can-
nonade. So Bolgolain, the Lilliputian Minis-
ter, thought, when he thundered his Phillipics
in the great council of the nation against Gul-
liver. The Right Hon. Baronet was not always
so rancorous towards the Press as he is at pre-
sent. We remember in those halcyon days,
when he spread his sail, and made his voyage
of Reform through the law, while the Press
puffed his cock-boat along, he was all smile's
and gratitude towards his powerful auxiliaries ;
during the discussion of the Catholic Question,
too, when the influential portion of the same
Press cheered his gloom, upheld him in his
difficulties, and brought him safe to land, though
the wind and tide were both against him, not a
word was the Right Hon. Baronet heard to whisper
against Journalism, though party spirit in those
days ran higher, if possible, than now. The Press
was then all that a Press should be. It praised
Sir ROBERT PEEL with almost as much zeal as
he constantly praises himself ; could it then be
otherwise than exemplary, and disinterested, and
patriotic ? Its sins commenced with its deser-
tion of the Right Hon. Baronet. So long as it
upheld him it was immaculate ; the instant it
ceased its support, it became corrupt. Sir
ROBERT'S attack on the Press can deceive no
one: Its motives are self-evident. The news-
papers, together with the country, have found
that though a great name he is a little autho-
rity ; that his views as a Statesman are narrow,
purblind, and petty ; in the necessary discharge
of their duty they have said as much to the
world--/zinc illce lachrymcr ; hence the Right
Hon. Ex-Secretery's repeated sneers at the
conduct and influence of the Press. But he
affects, forsooth, to despise this same Press,
and above all to treat it with indifference ! In-
deed ? Why, then, is he always repeating his
cuckoo. cry of complaint—why always losing
his temper when he alludes to the enormities of
Journalism ? Is not such conduct a proof
rather of the wincing of the galled jade, than of
indifference ?

Lord ALTHORP proposed, in consequence of
the slow progress that Reform makes through
the House, that in future the Committee should
commence their labours at five o'clock. Mr.
WYNN, in those sweetly modulated tones, so
characteristic of his illustrious family, opposed
the motion, which, however, was ultimately
carried. A few boroughs, in addition to those
already despatched, were then quietly put to
death, after which the House adjourned. We
should not omit to mention that Mr. F.
BARING entered into a lengthy explana-
tion of the conduct of himself and brother
in the DEACLE affair, which seemed to satisfy
the House. The country, we suspect, will be
more difficult to please ; still it is but justice to
state, that the Hon. Member explained away
much that appeared offensive and tyrannical in
the business. His justification, however, was
not complete, though satisfactory as far as it went.

The accounts from St. Petersburgh are to the
6th instant, and from Warsaw to the 11th, in-
clusive. The cholera morbus was making most
rapid and most fatal progress in St. Petersburgh.
The number of deaths on the 4th being 106, and
of new cases 223, more than double the number
on the 2d. This was very alarming for the ca-
pita! ; but at Riga the virulence of the disease
had considerably abated.

The news from Poland continues to be very
satisfactory. The Poles are increasing their
regular forces, not only in the vicinity of
Warsaw, but in Lithuania, where the new levies
are being organized with great spirit and alacrity.

few days more will most likely bring us some
accounts of an important nature, for the Poles
were on the eve of taking decisive measures.—
As a proof that the insurrection in Volhynia
and Podolia prospers, two thousand well-armed
Podolian cavalry have arrived at Zamosc to
assist the Poles. This looks like business :--
ST. PETEASUURQH, JULY 4.
MANIFESTO OF HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR.
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Oar beloved brother the Gemmel:tech and Grand Duke
Constantine Paulovitscb, being attacked by the contagion
which was raging at Witepsk, died on the 27th of this
month of the cholera morbus, after short and severe suffer-
ings. It is with profound grief, but with submission to
the inscrutable decrees of the King of Kings, that we an-
nounce the cruel blow which has just fallen on our house.
" Given at Alexandria, near Peterhof, June 29, in
year of our Lord 1831, and sixth of our reign.
(Signed) " NICHOLAS."
The Imperial Court has gone into mourning for three
months for the Grand Duke Constantine.

Up to the 2d of July there have arrived at Cronstadt
804 ships; sailed, 478. At Riga, up to the 30th June,
arrived, 1,119 ships; sailed, 981.

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By order of the Emperor a Committee has been insti-
tuted to take measures for preventing the propagation of
the cholera in this capital. The Committee consists of
the Military Governor of St. Petersburg'', and the Aide-
de-Camps, General Count Czenwitscheff, Count Zakrewsk,
and Prince Menzikoff. The Committee has published a
long statement of the regulations which it has adopted.
The number of the sick, unhappily, increases, as was
to be foreseen ; but the zeal of the Government and the
officers, and other private persons who have been ap-
pointed for the purpose, is unabated, to lessen if possible
the number of victims and alleviate their sufferings. If
but few of the sick have hitherto recovered, the sole cause
is the peculiar nature and the obstinacy of this disorder.
Many have fallen sick at once, and but few at a time
recover. The disease has but just set in, and the cure re-
quires time. To this may be added the heat of the sum-
mer and the rapid changes of the temperature for some
days past. By the gracious support of God, the inde-
fatigable exertions of his Imperial Majesty, to whom ac-
curate reports of the progress of the disorder, and the state
of the capital, are made twice a day, and by the zeal of
those who are appointed to execute the orders of the Ma-
gistrates, we confidently expect a speedy deliverance from
this scourge.
Full of confidence in Heaven, we will all of us, espe-
cially landlords, and masters of families, exert ourselves to
the utmost, and co-operate with the beneficial measures of
the Government. _ _ _ .

The following is the daily statement, as published in the
German Journals of St. Peteraburgh

Remain from New Reco- Likely to
preceding day. cases. Died. vered. recover.
July 2. 61 99 57 1 19
3. 102 152 67 '2 17
4. 185 '2'23 106 1 46

5. 301
WARSAW, JULY 1 1. —General Krukowiecki, late Go-
vernor of Warsaw, has returned to this city.
The State Gazette contains a report of General Thos.
Luhienski, dated Warsaw, July 6, giving an account of
an attack made by Generals Mahlherg, Turno, and Jarac-
zewski, on the Russians, in and about the town of Plonsk,
in which the Poles were successful, and took 40 prisoners.

The same Paper gives, under the date of the Bth, the
following news :—There will probably be some fighting
to-day on the Wieprz, as General Romarino has approached
the corps of Rudiger. One hundred and twenty dragoons
of Rudiger's corps, with their horses, and four officers,
were taken on the sth by a detachment of Chrzanowski's
corps, which crossed the Vistula under Lieutenant Giedrojc.
The accounts from General Gielgud are to the 29th June.
He was the❑ in Rossienna ; his main force was encamped
between the rivers of Willa and Sivient 1, to protect the
organization of the new regiments. With two regiments of
cavalry he had reconnoitred the country nearly to the emi-
nences about Wilna, which the Russians had strongly for-
tified. General Szymanowski was at Szawle, from which
he had driven the Russians. Colonel Valentina is said to
have been drowned by accident in the
The army, which is now being organized in Lithuania,
has already 8,000 well armed and mounted cavalry. Our
detachments scour the country in Podlachia to the other
side of the Lieviez, and beyond Wengrow near Siedlec and
Zelechow. The enemy has no fixed positions on that side,
and appears only now and then in small numbers. Yes-
terday and to-day there has been some fighting to our ad-
vantage, between Ploczk and Sierock.
JULY 9.—The Russians entered Plock again the day
before yesterday. The Vistula is swelled considerably, and
seems as if it would contribute to obstruct the passage of
the Russians to the left bank.

JULY 10.—The Commander-in-Chief set out yesterday
to joi❑ the army. It is said that General Chrzanowski is
to have the chief command of the corps in Podlachia
and Lublin. There are now about 15,000 Russians
troops in Plozk. The Grand Duke Michael and Count
Paskewitech have their head-quarters in the colonies near
Plozk. The Russians are beginning to collect timber for
a bridge near Plozk.
The Warsaw Gazette says the Russians are forming a
camp near Krasnik, in the province of Lublin. The main
force of Gen. Rudiger is said to be collected at the junction of
the Wieprz and the Vistula, near Stenzyzn, his vanguard ex-
tending beyond Lublin, while his advanced posts occupy
Stoczck, Seroczyn, and Kuzk, and extend to Laskavzew.
A considerable division of Russian cavalry and infantry
has arrived at Racionz, in the province of Plozk, whose
vanguard of SOO cavalry entered Drobin on the 4th or
sth : it is said they occupied Bielak, four leagues from
Plozk."

It is said that 2,000 well armed Podolian cavalry have
arrived at Zamosc. This news requires confirmation.
The Warsaw Courier says " the news tlfat General Mu-
rawieff has taken the command of the corps of General
Kreutz, is confirmed." On the contrary, the account of
the taking of Wilna proves to be unfounded. But the
Samogitians are all under arms, and the insurrection ex-
tends as far as the Duna. The insurgents have some im-
portant positions near Pulangen. It is said, that Countess
Plata has fallen into the hands of the enemy. The news
of the arrival of 2,000 Podolian Cossacks at Zamosc is
confirmed. The State Gazette officially announces that
the extraordinary tribunal appointed to conduct the pro.
ceedings in the affair of the conspiracy, has reported to the
Governor of Warsaw, that the ,importance of the affair,
which requires the most careful investigation, and the ne-
cessity of examining the numerous papers of the persons
accused, make it impossible to go on with the proceedings
in twenty-four hours, as required by Article 16, of the
Ordinance of the 20th of February. The tribunal has
consequently been authorised to proceed according to the
principle of the ordinary military tribunals.
KONIGSBURG, ONLY 15.—General Gielgud has suc-
ceeded in getting to Rossienna with his corps, but he is
now surrounded and besieged by the Russian troops. The
inhabitants of the Prussian frontier towns are, therefore,
still under some apprehension that that corps may attempt
to force its way to Prussia•
AMSTERDAM, JULY 19.—Accounts from Archangel of
26th June say that the cholera had considerably abated,
and it was hoped that it would soon disappear ; but
another account says the mortality had been very great.
At Riga the mortality was abating, and at Pernau all
was well on the 29th. An official account from Stock-
holm says the cholera had appeared in Bornhden.