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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19 1831.

It is very generally rumoured about town that „
a certain Noble Duke, whose favourite political'
doctrine is expediency, has, after a long but
fruitless opposition to Reform, after even de-
nouncing it in loto, when such denouncement
was considered premature even by his staunchest
supporters, at length discovered that it is expe-
dient to pass the Bill, which will consequently, it
is .understood, receive his support. Though we
do not vouch for the truth of this rumour,
still we think it far from improbable, inasmuch
as the Noble Personage in question, though
strongly tinctured with prejudices on certain
points, is usually clear-headed and sagacious, a
man of the world, of vast and varied experience,
and one too who loves to think and act for him-
self. By his vote, that of many other Noble
Lords, who are at present undecided, watching
the turn of events, will, it is supposed, be
influenced ; but whether the report of his con-
version be true or false, whether he vote for or
against the Bill, still, as we have said from the
first, and .again repeat, the measure must, and
will, pass. Opposition, though it may awhile
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fixed on the one grand cardinal point. Reform

is the ark of their salvation ; they know that it is
so ; and will cling to it with all the tenacity and
desperation of drowning inen. If the Lords
have not already perceived these striking indica-
tions on the part of the people, they must be
blinder than moles ; if, having perceived, they
refuse to acknowledge them, they must be more

indifferent to their own interests than the utmost
stretch of imagination could conceive possible.
One of two courses—for there is no longer a
mean path—is now open to them, either to
conciliate or to defy the people. If they adopt
the former alternative, the legitimate power and
privileges of their order will still continue undi-
minished—unsullied ; if the latter, they will be
subject to the most trying and hazardous fluctua-
tions. They have therefore to choose, whether
with the wise man they will build up their house
on the rock, or with the fool, on the sea-shore.
Meantime, which ever way they decide, their de-
cision must be prompt and unequivocal. The
golden moments are pressing on. The sand in
the hour-glass is running out. It is already evening,
and the night, " when no man can work," is close
at hand. W hen once the Rubicon is passed, there
can be no retrograde movement. The die is cast
for life or death. Having rejected the request
of the people, the Lords must prepare for the
consequences. We implore them then, as they
value the safety of their own Order and the in-
terests of their posterity, to consent to that which
may for the time be put off, but which cannot
ultimately be withheld. Reform is the cry of
all classes—of all professions—of all trades—
for till the question is decided, commerce will
languish, discontent gain hourly fresh energies.

The capitulation of Warsaw, and its entry by
the Russian troops, is but too true. The sensa-
tion this intelligence has created in Paris is, as
we anticipated, most intense, has already given
rise to tumults, and will, we apprehend, give rise
to many more. The Ministry too- have been
defeated, on a point which the Minister
of War seems to have considered of great
moment, and this defeat occurring at a crisis
of peculiar excitement cannot fail materially
to endanger their stability. But the Polish
question absorbs all others in the French
capital. It is felt there as a national calamity,
and in some degree a disgrace, and so indeed it
isr had not the heroic Poles thrown them-
serre-s in the way, the army of NICHOLAS would
long ere this have reached the banks of the
Rhine. The Poles therefore may be con-
sidered as having, to a certain extent, sacrificed
themselves for the French.

We learn by the Allgcmeine Zeitung that
the SULTAN having done his utmost, and failed,
to reform his subjects, now feels himself com-
pelled to revert to ancient usages, and place all
his schemes of amelioration in schedule A. The
same authority adde that the late destructive fire
ill the Christian quarter of Constantinople is sus-
pected to have been the work of Turkish incen-
diaries.

The Prussian State Gazette gives a flaming
Russian version of the siege and capitulation of
Warsaw, and adds that the Polish army has
submitted to its Monarch, and, in conformity
with his manifesto, gone to Plozk, there to re-
ceive his orders. Tits surrender of Warsaw
is a reflection on all civilized nations. What is
the Belgian question compared with that of
Poland ? Who cares one sixpence for either
Holland or Belgium ? who would not leap with
joy to know that the Poles, one of the noblest
nations in Europe, had recovered their inde-
pendence ? But France, we hope and trust,
still yet prove herself their avenger.
WA SEPT. S.—Poland is again subject to its law-
ful Sovereign. On the sth instant Field-Marshal Count
Paskewitsch sent a confidential officer to Warsaw, to de-
tnand, in the name of his Majesty, the submission of the
city, and to promise, on the other hand, amnesty and
pardon. With an infatuation which cannot be sufficiently
deplored the words of peace were rejected by the leaders
of the insurrection. On the 6th, at day-break, the Rus-
sian army advanced to storm the city. After a most
desperate and sanguinary resistance our brave soldiers,
with rare intrepidity, made themselves mast, rs of four re.
doubts, which lay upon our line of attack, as well as the
first line of entrenclonents which surround Warsaw itself,
and of which Nola is a perfect fortress. The task, how-
ever, did not end with this : there remained a second
line of entrenchments, and a broad moat round the city,
defended by batteries. At four o'clock in the morning of
the 7th, the Field-Marshal was preparing to overcome the
last obstacles, when Gen. Krukowiecki se t Gen. Proud-
zynski to him, to announce the intention o' the Polish na-
tion to submit to its legitimate King. These sentiments were
however, not confirmed by the Chief of the Government,
who soon after came in person to the Marshal. He af-
firmed that the consent of the Diet was necessary for
such a submission. After the most urgent exhort stions and
representations of the inutility of further defenc., and the
disasters which it would inevitably bring with it. the
General withdrew at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Here-
upon three hours more were granted to General Kruko_
wiecki, within which time he was to announce to the Ma-
rshal his final resolution. As this was not given by one
o'clock, the Marshal sent word that he should give orders
to attack. Hal an hour more was requested for con-
sideration, but this also elapsing without a satisfactory
answer being given, the Marshal issued orders for the
attack. It was terrible, and many successive flags of truce
were sent, but they brought only dilatory answer.. The
attack, therefore, was begun upon the second line of en-
trenchments, which was carried at the point of the
bayonet. The enemy, who meantime received re-
intorc, ments, vigorously defended the gardens and the
edge of ditches towards the Jerusalem barrier, and
even made our troops give way for a moment ; hut the
ardour of the latter revived,—they quickly scaled the
walls of the city, which presented a most formidable line
of defence : the prodigies of valour which had already
distinguished the two days were renewed, and at nine
o'clock in die evening, the entrenchment., the gardens,
ditches, walls, every thing in short, was in the hands of
our brave troops. Meantime night had set in, and the
army required repose. Three line. of entrenchments car-
ried by storm, 6,000 prisoners, and nearly 100 pieces of
cannon, were the trophies of these two memorable days.
Nothing could now save the city and the enemy's army.
Both, therefore, implores! the clemency of the Emperor ;
and this circumstance made it the Marshal's duty to re-
strain the vengeance of the soldiers, which was excited to
the utmost by such an obstinate resistance. To-day our
troops are in Warsaw. The Polish army and the natives
have submitted to their Monarch : the former, in conformity
with the Emperor's manifesto, is gone to Moak, there to
await his orders. In a few days we shall be able to give
a more detailed account of these important events.
The glorious success which we have obtained has been
purchased by severe los-es. The Field-Marshal himself
has received a contusion on the left arm and breast.
Krukowiecki has resigned his power. General Mala-
chowski has announced to the Field-Marshal, in two
letters, signed by his own hand, that be leads the army to
Plozk, with the intention of waiting there for the corn-
in suds of his Imperial Majesty, We must hope that the
Polish army will persevere in their good sentiments, and
disregard the perfiiious insinuations which may perhaps
have been addressed to it.
BEaris, SEPT. 12.-1 u the last 24 hours there

have been twenty-seven new canes of cholera ; three cures ;
fifteen deaths ; the number of patients remaining is fifty-four.
In the city of Dantzic and its territory the disorder has
nearly disappeared ; on the 7th instant, there was only
one new case, one recovery, and one death, and but five
patients remaining.
ST. PETERSBURGII, SEPT. 2.—The latest reports from
Count Paskewitsch of the 23,1 of August contain, among
other details, a circumstantial account of the disorders
which took place in Warsaw in the middle of AuguA.—
Up to the 28th, the number of ships that arrived at
Cronstadt was 1,164; sailed, 1,029.
To the 13th, the arrivals at Archangel were 122 ; 333
ships had sailed.