Star.
London, England, 1830-11-23 00:00:00

LONDON.

TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 23.

This day despatches were received at the Colonial Office
from Lieutenant-General DARLING, the Governor of New
South Wales. _

At three o'clock this afternoon, the new Ministers held
their lint Cabinet Council, at the Foreign Office, in
Downing-street. The Council was numerously attended,
and continued in deliberation for a considerable period.

Rumours are current, that the King of the NIMBLER-
LANDS has refused the mediation of the five pacific powers,
and that he rejects the terms of the armistice. This, we
have good grounds for believing, is not true. On the
,trrirv. we are inclined to think, from information before
us, that the affairs of Belgium and Holland will be ami-
cably arranged in a few days.

The account of the proceedings in Parliament last night,
and the list of the new Ministry, which appear in our Paper
this evening, must be perused with no ordinary degree of
interest. Combined, these statement; form the most impor-
tant and interesting matter, which has been presented to the
British public, in the columns of a newspaper, for, at least,
a quarter of a century.
In the House of Lords, we find Lord BROUGHAM 011 the
woolsack—the first place of the first order, acquired by no
other means, than the fair exertion of talent and unflinching
efforts, amidst " good report and evil report," for the ad-
vancement of those liberal principles, which can alone
maintain the analogy which should never be lost, between
the institutions and intelligence of society—that self-re-
medying constitutional principle, which is the birth-right of
every Englishman. The proceedings in the House are
altogether of a different character from those which we
have been so long accustomed to peruse. We
have before us, in this debate, an engagement from the Mi-
nisters of the Crown, under the sanction of his Maize-
,Y, to submit to Parliaments measure of reform in the
representative system.
Lord LANSDOWNE came first in making this important
declaration to Parliament ; and in stating his intentions
on the subject, he made the following limitation of their ex-
teat :—that to no reform, and to no proposition for a
supposed reform, which did not leave• to the property
and education of the country a share, and a preponderating
share too, in the legislature, could be es an honest man,
looking at the permanent welfare both of the people
and of the monarchy, give his consent. (Hear, hear.)
Lord GREY followed, and in making a similar declaration
of the_ intention of his MAJESTY'S Government, to hitt&
duce a Parliamentary Reform, defined the object of the

intended measure to be, " to correct the defects which had
beenintroduced by time." His Lordship further explained,
that, he was not one of those who were inclined to sup-
port any of those fanciful, but extreme plans of reform,
which were' promulgated by some persons out of doors; but

which, if adopted, would lead, not to reform, but to anarchy
.. and confusion. He never had supported, and be did not now
intend to support, the principles of universal suffrage, or of
my of those wide and extensive changes which had been
propounded in some quarters, from which better things might
have been expected. He wished to stand as much as he
could, upon the fixed and settled institutions of the country ;
and feeling that poen reform was necessary, the principle on
which he wished to regulate it—for the task, he be-
lieved, would be considered on all hands as one of nol
' entail difficulty7would be, that of doing as much as was
necessary, to secure to the people, a due influence in that
council, in which they were more peculiarly represented.
A reform, extensive to this degree--nod if it were not ex-
teasive to this degree it would be ineScient—he wished to
see adopted, limited, however, by a doe regard to the settled
institetisse of the anatry. 864 act acwsPanied tot:
greet and. 'WA changes, which must
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distorbanawle t foot theft. destruction. On the other
views el fie New 'Administration, Lord GAZT said dist