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London, England, 1832-08-20 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1832.

An extraordinary panic has taken place in
Bank Stock. Since last Thursday that se-
curity has fallen seventeen per cent ! After
this, who shall say that secrecy in matters
of such general public concern is the best
policy ? if the Bank Directors had yielded
some time ago to the wish of the public
by furnishing information on a subject in
which they had such a direct interest, the pre-
sent depreciation would have been avoided. We
are willing to admit that the Directors found
themselves in a very awkward dilemma, and were
really at a loss how to get out of it. But had
they no apprehension of some such consequence
as the present, when disclosures must of neces-
sity be made by the agitation of the renewal of
the Charter ? We can now readily account for
their hesitation in coming to book, and their
anxiety to hush up investigation. But honesty
Is the best policy, and timely publicity would
have been their best course.

In the French Papers of Saturday, we find
it hinted that the Chambers are likely to meet
earlier than was anticipated. This expectation
is founded on a report that the Ministers are
busily engaged in preparing the new budget. If
the French Chambers meet soon, the question
of the Frankfort Edicts is likely to occupy their
attention, and that in a manner not very satis-
factory to those Powers who originated the ob-
noxious proscription against the Liberty of the
Press and the freedom of the people.
It appears by the accounts from Vienna that
a desperate attempt was made by a Captain to
assassinate the King of HUNGAIII, which for-
tunately failed.

A very great eruption took place from Vesu-
vius on the 29th ult., but no loss of life ensued.
The cholera was rather worse at Paris, though
the weather was cooler than usual.

The Brussels Papers announce the arrival of
the KING, accompanied by his bride, at the
Palace of Lacken, on the evening of the 16th.
The public entry into Brussels was to have
taken place yesterday.
All the accounts concur in stating that
LEOPOLD is now determined in bringing the
question of peace or war to a speedy termination.
The free navigation of the Scheldt seems to be
the chief point at issue, and it is one in which
the commercial interest of England is deeply
concerned.

Dutch papers of Saturday's date have been
received this afternoon. The preparations for
war still continue, though an amicable settlement
of the questions at issue is anticipated.
We find in these papers the answer of our
KING to an address of the States of Hanover,
on occasion of the late attack on his sacred per-
Son by COLLINS, who is this day on his trial
for the offence. We should have been
better pleased if his MAJESTY'S answer were
accompanied by au order for the repeal of the
late ordinance respecting the Frankfort decrees
against the liberty of the Press. Such a mark
of respect would have been the more welcome
to his Hanoverian subjects,
as
remon-
strated against the publication of
the
were decidedly opposed to its • • they
decree, aiidpernicious tendency.
THE HAGUE, AUU. 16.—The 'Magistrates have caused
a warning against the eating of unripe, and moderate rat-
ting of ripe fruits, to be proclaimed in various parts of
the town by the public crier.
Last Tuesday the Supreme Court of Justice tried the
cause of the pamphlet Van du Vin, and smtenced K.
H. W. Apeker, the printer of this immoral pamphlet, to
one year's imprisonment, a fine of 236 florins, and the
costs of the pamphlets are confiscated.
His Majesty's corvette Triton arrived last Friday at
Flushing, with a considerable number of seamen for the
fleet in the Scheldt.
Auc. 17.—We have received Java papers from the
29th of March to the 21st of April, but they contain no
news of any importance.
BREDA, AUGUST 13.--Nu arrangement has been made
about the positions of the Belgian troops about Maestrecht.
General Pc.blets sent word to General Magnan that unless
the villages of Hear and Scharr were immediately eva-
cuated, he would order them to be occupied by force,
on which the Belgians retired.
Bors•LF.-Duce, AUGUST I6.—Notwithstanding the
pacific reports, the preparations for war are not neglected,

and a large quantity of ball cartridges has lately arrived
here from Holland. Private accounts say, that the Bel-
gian garrison of Vet]loo has been lately reinforced.
AMSTERDAM, AUG. 17.
Actual Debt, 2% per cent 44 to 44%
Amort Syndic, 4% percentN to 741,i
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. ... sBq to 59 l,i
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 96% to. Sa
Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent S3 to 83%
THE CHOLERA. _

New cases. Deaths. Recoveries.
Schevningen, 14, 15, and 16 Aug. 15 10 15
The Hague, 14, 15 and 16 Aug. 50 25 13
Rotterdam, 14 and 15 Aug. 54 z;
13
Some cases have also occurred at Amsterdam. Up to
the 15th there had been 6 cases, 3 of which have proved
fatal.—Dutch Papers, Aug. 18.

HANOVER, At-G. 10.—His Royal Highness the Viceroy
yesterday addressed the following to the Assembly of the
States of the kingdom :—" I have transmitted to his Ma-
jesty the King the address of the General Assembly
of the Estates of the kingdom, on occasion of the
deplorable attack on his Majesty's sacred person. The King
has been pleased to make an answer which I, conformably
to his directions, with the more pleasure transmit to the
estates, as it gives me an opportunity of repeating the as-
surance of my good will."
The following is the King's answer

"William the Fourth, &c.—We have received with lively
pleasure the address which the General Assembly of the
estates resolved to send to us as soon as they were
informed of the attack upon our person, and which, having
been presented by a numerous deputation to our beloved
brother the Viceroy, has been laid before us by his Royal
Highness. The sentiments of affection and devoted at-
tachment which our faithful estates desire to express
to us on an occasion when our life might be in danger,
could not but be received by us with time most lively emo-
tions and the most sensible gratitude.
" We readily reply to it by the assurance, that we enter-
tain a perfect confidence that our faithful States will con-
tinue to be inclined and zealous to promote our intentions,
which are continually devoted to the welfare of onr beloved
and faithful Hanoverian subjects, duly appreciating the
same, and seconding them with true patriotic zeal, and
with that calmness and consideration by which alone the
true interests of the country can be best promoted.
" We remain,

" WILLIAM REX.
" Q. V. OMPTEDA.
" Windsor Castle, July 28, 1832."

The Spectator of yesterday contains a state-
ment in one of its leading articles so calculated
to mislead a large body of persons, that we think
it right at once to notice it. The statement is,
that lodgers are, by the Reform Act, admitted
into the constituency. The only clause of the
Act which can afford the Spectator a shadow
of a pretence for such an assertion, is the
twenty-ninth, which runs thus—" That where
any premises as aforesaid in any such city or bo-
rough, or in any place sharing in the election
therewith, shall be jointly occupied by more
persons than one, as owners or tenants, each of
such joint occupiers shall, &c. be entitled to
vote, &c. in case the clear yearly value of such
premises shall be of an amount which, when di-
vided by the number of such occupiers, shall give
a sum of not less than ter,pounds for each
and every such occupier, but not otherwise."
We grant to our contemporary that it may be
very possible some lodgers will, under this clause,
set up a claim for registration ; indeed, we know
that some have; but that a Paper conducted with
the ability with which the Spectator undoubtedly
is, should fall into such an error, is surprising.
The wishes of the writer must have blinded his
judgment, or he would have seen that the clause
requires the party not only to be a joint occupier,
which a lodger undoubtedly is, but a joint oc-
cupier, " as owner or tenant," which a lodger
undoubtedly is not. We would refer such of
our readers as may feel disposed to adopt
the Spectator's construction of the clause to
the case of Fludier v. Sir T. Lombe. Cases
temp. Hard. 307. As a general rule it may
be well in the public to receive with great
caution any construction of the Reform Act,
unsupported by proof, of any strong partizan,
whose wishes may be "father to his thought."

We refer to another part of The Sun for
particulars of a very interesting meeting in
favour of the Poles, that took place on Thurs-
day last at Leeds. Count PLATER, one of the
bravest and most illustrious among that little
band of Polish patriots, who for so many months
withstood the onslaughts of DIEBITSCII and his
Russian brigands, attended at this meeting, and
entered into details of the sufferings of his
countrymen, which it sickens the heart but to
think of. " Will you believe, gentlemen," said
the Count, " that at this very moment, many
thousand citizens are sent, in the most atro-
cious way, attached to a bar of iron, on foot, on
their way to Siberia—that infants are torn from
their parents, and sent by thousands, boys to
the Military Schools, and girls to the manufac-
tories, in the interior of Russia, where they lose
for ever their nationality—that even the women
are sent to Siberia—that many mothers, in
their despair, have plunged the dagger into
their infants' breasts, and have with the same
dagger killed themselves—that those unheard.
of cruelties are perpetrated without any conside-
ration for age, for sex, or the rank of the in-
habitants—that great numbers of this unfor-
tunate people die on their way in consequence
of the most barbarous treatment—that Poland
in a very short time will be peopled by the
Russians, and Siberia by the Poles—that
the language, religion, civilization, are de-
stroyed, many of the churches in ruins, many
occupied by the Russian priests—the universi-
ties and the schools abolished—military tribu-
nals established—all fortunes confiscated, and
Polish villages peopled by the Russian peasantry,
committing the most atrocious enormities—that
by Russia❑ intrigues the greatest part of the
Polish army, who had taken refuge in Prussia,
was, after many murders, compelled to return to
Poland, and then sent to Siberia, or compelled
to be common soldiers in the Russian regiments
for all their lives.—(Shame, shame.) This is
the wretched state of Poland, perishing under
the despotism of Russia." Mr. E. BAINES,
Jun. afterwards gave a brief but most impressive
sketch of the exertions and sufferings of the
Countess EMILY PLATER, " a young, unmar-
ried lady, of beauty, wealth, and accomplish-
ments," who died during the last Polish insur-
rection, " on a pallet, in a rude hut of a frontier
village of Lithuania," but not until she had
won for herself a name in history, such as few
women even in the most heroic ages of Greece
and Rome, can aspire to. How deplorable must
be the condition of a country, how intolerable
the despotism exercised over it, where incidents like
this are of frequent occurrence ! How deep must the
shaft be drivel► into the heart of Poland, when
even her women, by nature shy, timid, and
withdrawn by taste and habit from politics,
feel it transfix their souls in the depths of retire-

ment ! The tyranny must indeed have been
galling, the load insupportable, that compelled a
gentle, discreet, virtuous, high-born young Po-
lish lady, nurst in the lap of luxury, and devoted
from earliest childhood to those feminine accom-
plishments which in nine cases out of ten teach
refinement to the detriment of energy, to
forego her favourite pursuits, waive the
privilege of her sex, buckle on her armour,
and sally forth into the field at the head of a
band of retainers, among whom she herself shot]
the bravest and most conspicuous. The tyranny
that affects such changes as these, that bids
woman exchange the distaff for the spear, the
fan for the sword, the cap for the helmet,
is one at which humanity shrinks aghast, and
which all Europe is equally interested in putting
down. The Leeds meeting, whose example we
trust to see followed by every other town in the
kingdom, wisely resolved on an address to the
KING (of England, we mean not Hanover, for
an address to the latter Monarch would be a
joke as ridiculous as any that floats on the
unctuous face of LisToN), praying him to inter-
pose the influence of the British Government
with the Emperor of RUSSIA in behalf of the
oppressed Poles. Such an interposition, if made
in a proper spirit, with more of a frown than a
smile, as best becomes a Liberal Cabinet when
advocating the rights of humanity at the
Court of a foreign despot, cannot but be suc.
cessful. Let but the British Lion roar, and the
Russian Bear will soon become gentle as an
unweaned lamb.

The German papers received this morning
are chiefly occupied with an account of the
murderous attempt on the life of the Crown
Prince of Austria
VIENNA, AUG. S.—We learn that the cause which in-
duced the murderer whom we mentioned yesterday to
commit his desperate act, was the bad state of his circum-
stances, and the prospect of seeing himself and his family
shortly reduced to beggary. He had in vain tried the
lottery, and as a heavy bill was due on the day he com-
mitted his crime, he thought that there, was no way to
save his family from disgrace but that which he adopted.
All this appears from a letter which he has left. his
body is to be carried to the place of execution and inter-
red under the gallows.
FRONTIERS oi• SERVIA, Aug. 2.—Private letters from
Constantinople of July 19, indicate that there is most
desperate fighting in Syria ; it is stated that on the 27th
and 30th of June, and 3,1 of July, there were very serious
engagements, all to the disadvantage of the Sultan's troops,
and that the Pada is in a great consternation. We im-
patiently expect the next post from Constantinople, which
must either confirm or contradict these accounts.

(From the Milan Gazette.)
ANCONA, JULY 20.—0 n the 20th July, Vonozza was
surrendered on capitulation by Colonel Pisa to the Go-
vernment at Napoli. The latter, however, is stated to
have since dissolved itself, and a national assembly is orga-
nizing to establish a provisional Government in the name
of Prince Otho. Greva with his people burnt the archives
of the Senate at Napoli, and plundered several houses,
on the pretext of getting money to pay his troops.
Nothing but the speedy arrival of the new Sovereign
can secure Greece from the horrors of anarchy. All the
corps are at variance with each other. The pirates are be-
coming more.numerous. Hydra and Spezzia are at open
war with each other.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 13.
VIENNA, AUG. 9.—1 must again be a messenger of
frightful news. News has just been received from Baden,
near Vienna, wherein the Imperial Family has been for a
short time, that his Majesty the young King of Bavaria
has just escaped, as if by miracle, a danger that threatened
his life. As he was walking this morning, early, in the
beautiful valley called Hellenanthas, accompanied by an
Aid-de-Camp, a person passing close behind the Prince
drew a pistol from his pocket and discharged it at him.
Though he was but a few steps distance, Providence di-
rected the ball so that it but slightly grazed his Majesty's
shoulder. The Aid-de-Camp instantly turned round and
seized the perpetrator, who made no resistance whatever.
lle is a Ciptain in the Imperial service, and has a pen-
tion. The cause of this crime must appear from investiga.
tion; at present insanity seems to be the ground of it. The
report of the circumstance spread in Baden like wildfire,
and the impression which it:produced afforded a just proof
of the entire attachment of the Austrian people to the Im-
perial family ; only the military escort could save the cri-
minal from the fury of the people, who wanted to take
vengeance on the spot. The indignation of the people
of Vienna at this detestable crime is equally great.—
Allgenteine Zeitung, 14th Aug.
BERLIN, AUG. 9.—We learn from Breslau that the
first Burgomaster, Baron Von Kospoth, suddenly fell
victim to the Asiatic cholera on the night of the 4th inst.
The proceedings against Professor Weleker in Berne
will not he persisted in.
FRANKFORT, AUG. 12.—The resolutions of the German
Diet of 20th June were officially promulgated at Bruns-
wick on the 9th of August by a rescript, dated July 31.
The Gazette of Hesse Damstadt of the 10th inst.
also promulgates those resolutions, " which," adds the
official notice, "do not in any manner violate the Con-
stitution of the Grand Dutchy."—Frankfort Papers,
Aug. 13.