Star.
London, England, 1830-12-08 00:00:00

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 8.

This day the KING held a Levee at Saint James's
Palace, which was numerously attended. In the evening his
MAJESTY is to entertain the Cabinet Members, at a grand

d inner.

AN ASSASSIN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY!

Yesterday a very suspicious-looking person continued
loitering about the doors of the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons for a considerable time. To-day, soon after twelve
o'clock, he repeated his visit, and presenting himself at
the lower door of the House of Lords, the door at which
the KING and his Nobles usually enter, he attempted to
enter, but was prevented by the Ticket Porter, who col-
lared, and was endeavouring to push him out, when the
fellow drew forth a pistol,and placing it at the porter's breast,
pulled the trigger, but it fdttunately flashed in the pan.—
He was immediately taken into custody, and is now
under examination, at the Home Office, before Lord 111
BOURN E and Sir RICIIA RD BIRNIE. He is said to be a
native of Cork. If any additional particulars transpire, we
shall give them in a Second Edition.

Buenos Ayres papers are this day received to the sth
September. The House of Representatives had resolved
to prolong the Sessions, just commenced, for three months. A
paper of the 18th August states that • treaty, offensive and
defensive, had been entered into between several of the in-
terior provinces; and that although the aspect of affairs
in these provinces was somewhat stormy and unsettled, yet
there was no good cause for apprehending, that the general
pacification of the Republic would be disturbed.—Ex-
change b/ to

The Regency Bill was last night reed in the House of
Commons, the first time, and ordered to be read a second
time to-morrow. Amongst a variety of other business, it is
gratifying to perceive the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lord ALTHORPE, giving notice of a motion, for the ap-
pointment of a Select Committee, to consider what reduc-
tions ought to be made in the salaries, and emoluments of
all officers, holding places at the pleasure of the Crown.
Such an enquiry must prove highly satisfactory to the pub-
lic, as evincing the intentions of Government, for effectually
carrying forward their promised retrenchments.

We have endeavoured in our present, and two or three
former papers, to communicate to our readers, as well as the
extreme length of the matter would allow, the more impor-
tant points in the evidence, taken during the isvestigation of
the Prince de POLIO Ac and colleagues. The present
French Government appears to conduct this enquiry with a
feeling of justice highly creditable. From the first
moment of the capture of the Ex-Ministers, onr
Readers may perhaps recollect, that we raised our
feeble voice against a hasty prejudgment of their case, and
attempted to expose, as it merited, the truly d /a /anterne
spirit which disgraced one or two of the London Journals.
In calling our Readers' attention to the perusal of the evi-
dence, and in remarking that it tends much to the ex-
culpation of the accused, from the highest degree of
alleged culpability, we not only feel gratification at the ten-
dency of the evidence, on account of the accused, but feel
some little self-congratulation on the propriety of the part
we had advocated.

It may be remarked that the investigation fully displays
the weak miscalculation of the ex-government of Frarice.
Some of the accused Ministers appeared much more schsible
of the hazardous nature of the policy pursued than others;',
but all appeared ill-informed as to the state of the Parisian
sentiment. We are not ready to attribute an unnatural
want of feeling to any human being, when their ac-1
time will admit of another interpretation ; and inn
have never credited the conclusion, that the accused
ministers or even their infatuated master, ever contem-
plated the dreadful carnage which occurred, 'as a certain
result of their policy. It is more reasonable to suppose that
they calculated, as indeed appears, that the display of great
force world be more effectual than it proved. Even the
order for the military to act in massei; if the necessity to
pm, was once made out, which unfortunately was not the
case, might have proceeded more frodi &desire to diminish