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London, England, 1832-08-01 00:00:00

VIOLENT ASSAULT BY SOME COLLIERS.

Elizabeth Park;;;;;150, William Parkin, aged 20,
Thomas Varty, aged 21, Isaac IValter, aged 21, and
Joseph Elliot, aged 21, were charged with having attacked
Thomas Thew, on the King's highway, and with having
wounded him so as to endanger his life. Thew stated he
had been a member of the Union, but withdrew from the
society. The prisoners worked at the same colliery as he

LONDON,
W EDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1832.

At a quarter past two o'clock this afternoon,
his MAJESTY arrived from Windsor in a tra-
velling carriage and four, at St. James's Palace.
His MAJESTY was attended by Sir ANDREW
BARNARD as Equerry in Waiting. A guard of
honour, composed of a party of the 14th Light
Dragoons escorted the Royal carriage from
Hounslow, and a detachment of the second
Regiment of Life Guards took up their station
in the Palace-yard, with their band, which,
during the Levee, played several martial
airs. After the Levee a Privy Council was
held, at which the Honourable Mr. GREVILLE
officiated as clerk. His MAJESTY returns to
Windsor at half-past six o'clock.

The Forgery Bill was read a third time last
night in the House of Commons. After the
necessity for such an amelioration of our san-
guinary criminal code had been strongly and un-
answerably insisted on by the ATTORNEY-GE-
NERAL) Sir C. WETIIERELL opposed the mea-
sure, as he has opposed every measure that had
for its object the improved condition of
the community. Yet Sir CHARLES is not
of a cold or heartless turn ; he is simply a
bigot, well meaning, but obstinate to a degree
that might drive a saint mad with impa-
tience, and views the Forgery Bill, not as a
question of humanity, but as a monstrous affront
to the wisdom of our ancestors. In his reve-
rence for the past, he wholly overlooks the pre-
sent, and because it has been the fashion for
years to hang all criminals convicted of forgery,
would still continue that most amiable and praise-
worthy fashion. His political tenets are of the

same cut and quality as his garments. Both
belong to a period of the remotest antiquity; both
arc grotesque relics of generations long since
passed away. If Sir CHARLES would desire to
legislate beneficially for his age, let him haste to
put on the new Adam, and shuffle off the old.

We hope that Ministers will take the broad
hint afforded nightly by the thin attendance of
Members, and hurry through the business of the
session, thereby sparing themselves the mortifi-
cation of being counted out, as was last night
threatened on Mr. STANLEY'S Irish Bill. The
Members of both Houses, sick of a protracted
residence in London, are now hourly taking
wing for the country.

The anniversary of the Revolution has passed
off quietly at Paris. Sunday was the grand
day, and went off as smoothly as the two pre-
cedings days. The French Papers contain no
news.

The Frankfort edicts will not, we have good
reason to believe, from all we can learn on the
subject, be submitted to without a prompt and
energetic remonstrance on the part of the mil-
lions whom they are intended to coerce. Not a
few of the German principalities are already be-
ginning to take vigorous measures; and a refusal
to pay any taxes is pretty loudly talked of among
them. These are encouraging symptoms.

We find the following in the Morning Post,
which puts the case in so clear a light as to be
deserving the attention of his MAJESTY'S At-
torney-General. We are of opinion that much
public inconvenience will result from the long ad-
journment proposed by the Court of Review :
" The ATTORNEY-GENERAL told Mr. WAR-
BURTON that he believed it was never the inten-
tion of the Court of Review to adjourn for the
long vacation, and that he had looked into the
Act of Parliament, which he thought sufficient
to prevent them. He is certainly right. They
cannot by law adjourn for any length of time, for
the Statute says they must 'always' sit. Three
Gf the Judges of the Court must always sit to
form a Court, and the fourth may always be taking
his pleasure. In his first proposition, however, the
ATTORNEY•GENERAL must be wrong ; for
why should there be an order of the Court of
Review directing no petitions to be answered
after the 16th of July but for the First Seal be-
fore next Michaelmas Term, and that all the
petitions should be put into the paper on Tues-
day, the 24th of July, and that the Court would
continue its sittings until such paper should be
p,ot through,' if it never had any intention
to adjourn ? And how can Sir T. DENMAN,
knowing such order to exist, believe that the
Court never had such intention ?"

All accounts from the East concur in the
helpless state of the GRAND SEIGNIOR, and
force on the mind the belief that the grandeur
of the Turkish empire is fast drawing to a close.
The present Sovereign, with great ability, great
firmness, and more liberality than any of his
predecessors, has, ever since his accession to the
throne, been subject to one continued train of
calamity and disaster. The successful rebellion
of the Greeks, encouraged by all the European
Powers, deprived him, not only of his best sea-
men, but of some of the best parts of his domi-
nions. The destruction of his fleet at Navarino
paved the way for the successful irruption of the
Russians; and the same disaster has in no small
degree led to the late victories of his too power-
ful vassal, the Paella of EGYPT. What with
the extermination of the Janissaries, the con-
cessions made to Russia, the independence of
Greece, and the rebellion of IVIAHomET
Turkey is now less powerful, at least by one-
half, than she was but ten years ago, and must,
on the first provocation from Russia, fall a victim
to that power, unless supported by England and
France. The cause of all these calamities may,
without doubt, be attributed to the lateness of
the regeneration which the Sovereign introduced
into his Government. While all the other
Powers around Turkey were gradually ad-
vancing with the improvements of the age—
while even her vassal was following the same
course—encouraging trade and learning, and
strengthening the resources of Egypt, the seat of
Government, till within these few years, was still
under the same absurd and arbitrary laws and
customs which prevailed more than three centu-
ries ago. Reform at length carne, but it came
too late. The provinces had found out the
weakness of the capital, and, like he Roman
provinces in ancient times, are one after another
withdrawing from their allegiance, and forming
themselves into independent States. What a
contrast does the Ottoman Government exhibit
now, to the powerful display it made some 150
years ago, when the Turks laid siege to
Vienna, and were prevented from taking the
city only by the bravery of the Poles ; and
what a trait of ingratitude does the Emperor
of AUSTRIA exhibit when he lends his hand
to complete the annihilation of that gal-
lant nation, which rescued Austria from the
hands of the Turks ! Painful, however, as
it is to contemplate the dismemberment of a
great empire, and that under the dominion of a
people who possess many good qualities, it can-
not be denied that the weakness of the GRAND
SEIGNIOR at present may lead to good results.
Egypt is fast approaching to a civilized state—
Greece, we trust, will soon follow the example,
and both will adopt many of the improvements
of European life, which they would have been
debarred from by the continued dominion of the
capital.

Despatches were received this morning at the
Colonial.office from St. Lucie.

MADAME JUNOT'S MEMOIRS.--The third
volume of the English translation of the above witty and
amusing work will be published in a few days. The
present portion of these Memoirs relates, in particular,
to the period of the Consulate, and exhibits, in their pro-
per persons, all the high personages, English, French,
and Russian, who, at that time, formed the elite of Pa-
risian Society. Among the first of these, many interesting
anecdotes, and particulars are given of the late KING—
Lord and Lady CHOLMONDELEY the Duchess of
GORDON and her four daughters —Lord YARMOUTH
the Duchess of DORSET Lord Wurrwoavt..Lord and
Lady CONYNGHAX, &C.

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FALMOUTH, JULY 30.—Wind variable, light breezes.
—Arrived the Simeon, Rounding, from Bourdeaux.
BRISTOL, JULY 31.—Arrived the Chatlotte, Stratford,
from Archangel.

SLIGO, JULY 28.—Arrived the Favourite, Young, from
Drontheim ; and the 13arbara and Elizabeth, from London.
SUNDERLAND, JULY 30.—Arrived off port the Jentho,
Langley, from Quebec.
STocKTON, JULY 30.—Arrived the Hawk Packet,
Clay, from Garelle; and the Leveson and Castlereagh,
Lumsden, from St. Petersburgh.

HULL, JULY 30.—Arrived the Robert Peel, Pambry,
from Archangel ; Expresß, Akester, from St. Petersburgh;
and the Archibald, Wendt-, from Memel. •
HARWICH, JULY 31.—Arrived the Pomerania, Berner,
from Wolgast.

The Corsair steamer, from Liverpool, which was on
shore on Scull Martin Rock, on Saturday, has arrived at
Belfast, after throwing overboard between thirty an I forty
tom of salt.

CHOLERA INIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
COUNTRY.
Remaining at last Report, 930—New Cases, 347—Deaths,150—
Recovered, 174—Remaining, 953. Total Cases since the coin.
mencement, 23,307—Deaths, 8,745.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

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