Star.
London, England, 1830-04-27 00:00:00

NOTICE OF MOTION.

Lord Goderich—to submit a Motion on the subject of the Punde,l
and Unfunded Debt, and for Papers thereon.
••• This is the last by lot receiving the Reports of Judges.)
Private Bills.

HOUSE Or• COMMONS--Tabs D.[.

NOTICES OF 310TIONS.

Mr. O'Connell—to move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and
amend the laws relating to Vestries, in Ireland.
Mr. C. (pant—to submit a Motion relative to the reduction of the
Sugar Duties.
Mr. R. Grant—to apply for leave to bring in a Bill to supely a
defect is Act lith Geo. IV. c. 16, iutitled An Act to Amend tile
Laws relating to Bankrupts.
Mr. C. Grant—to bring forward a motion respecting Terceira.
Mr. Ki tg —to present a Petition on the subject of the proposr4l
Stamp Duties, as regard Ireland.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.
Rye Election Petition—Cotuinittee to try the merits thereof to lit
balloted for at half-put three o'clock.—[Gallery not to be opened.
till after such Ballot be diposed of, and 100 Members must be pre-
sent before four &clock, or the paid Ballot cannot be commenced
and this Ballot takes precedence of all (whet business.]
Limerick County Election Petition—Committee thereon after-
wards to be balloted for.
Members absent from Ballot of March 2, to attend.
Irish Sub-betting Act Amendment Bill—Committee thereon.

Administration of Justice Bill—to be read a second titue.
(lame Laws Amendment Bill—to be referred to a Committee.
Sheriffs in Leland Bill—Committee thereon.

His Majesty's Message respecting the Administration of Justice
—the House to resolve Into a Committee to take the same into con-
sideration.

Leases of Lands in Ireland Bill—Committee thereon.
Insolvent Debtors' Act Continuation Bill—to be read a second
time.

Co.-. 1 Trade :—Public Committee thereon at half-Ftst 12 o'clock.

PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL.

The annual examination of the pupils belonging to this
establishment took place yesterday afternoon at the house
of the Institution, in Gloucester-place, New-road, dr.
Lord Bishop of London in the Chair. Lord Radstoci.
Lord Calthorpc, Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Tavlor, anJ
several Dignitaries of the Church, were also present.
majority of the company, however, consisted of ladite
The classes were successively introduced into th
apartment by their preceptors, and underwent an exare.
nation in the following branches of knowledge by tits
Right Reverend Prelate, who expressed himself highly
satisfied with the youthful pupils' progress in their stu-
dies—Lutin, French, Religious Exercises, Mathematies,
Geography, and English History.
His Lordship, in presenting the first vise to Mai
Edward Charlton, adverted, in imnressive terms, to tie,
advantages (in common with the others) he enjoyed in the
Institution where he was receiving an education whiel,
would enable him to occupy valuable and important situ-
ations in life, which might otherwise have been fur ever
closed against them. He highly approved of the atten-
tion paid to their eternal interests, and of the careful man-
ner in which they were instructed in the knowledge of the
sacred Scriptures, to which all other branches of know-
ledge were rendered subservient. His Majesty had gra-
ciously pleased to become the patron of the Institution.
and this circumstance, he trusted, would operate as .an
additional stimulus to prosecute their studies with
dili-
gence. His Lordship then offered his services to the
Governors of the Institution, who might apply them in
any way they might think fit ; and, before he proceeded
to distribute the prizes, again reminded them (the ptipilo
that whatever proficiency they might acquire in one
branch of knowledge, they ought sedulously to observe
those Christian duties which, by the Divine blessing,
would be conducive to their eternal advantage. His
Lordship having pronounced his benediction on the lads,
distributed the prizes, consisting of classical publications.
to Master Charlton and fifteen others, after which he
withdrew. _ _

The object of this establishment was stated to be, to
afford relief to the heads of families who, by unexpected
misfortune, have been reduced, and who, consequently,
have it no longer in their power to provide that educa-
tion for their children which would qualify them for thoso
situations to which their connections in life may still entitle
them to look up. The boys are not hoarded, and they
consist of fifty-five contributory scholars, and seventy
foundation boys, subject to regulations.
FOREIGN TITLES OF ENGLISH NOBILITY.—Many
of the English Nobility are possessors of continental
titles of great honour. The Duke of Wellington is
Prince of Waterloo, in the Netherlands. The Duke of
Richmond is Duke of Aubigny, in France ; and the
Duchesses of Richmond, are, in consequence, allowed
the " Druit du Tabouret" on days of ceremony at the
French court. The Duke of Hamilton is Duke of Cha-
telherault. The Duke of Marlborough is a Prince of
the Holy Roman Empire. The Earl of Clarendon ie a
Count in Prussia. The Earls of Cowper and Denbigh,
the Lord Arundel, the families of Belasyse, Delafield,
Nassau, and Fremantle, are Counts of the Holy Roman
Empire.

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TUESDAY,

THE KING.

A very general expectation prevailed in the City, yes-
terday, that some communication would have been made
list night by Ministers, in Parliament, of the state of
his MAJESTY'S health ; but the subject was not even al-
luded to.—No Bulletin has been issued this day ; and
although the reports are as various as the sources from
which they are derived, yet the predominant opinion in
all quarters is, that the KING is decidedly better.

We understand that the arrangements for the esta-
blishment of the new Sovereignty of GREECE were defi-
nitively settled in the two late Cabinet Councils ; and
that the Allied PowersENGLAN D, FRANCE, and
RcsslA--have concurred in guaranteeing to the PRINCE
SOVEREIGN, LEOPOLD, payment of the sum of two mil-
lions four hundred thousand pounds for eight years.

Both Houses of Parliament resumed their sittings yes-
terday, after the Easter Recess ; and as the second
reading of Mr. PEEL'S Bill, for consolidating and amend-
ing the laws respecting Forgery, was included in the
Orders (like Duy, the discussion was anticipated with
considerable interest. It was, however, postponed, at
the suggestion of Mr. BROVG ti A M ; but upon grounds
which we think neither very creditable to the enlight-
ened spirit of the Legislature, nor to the humanity of the
~ountry. The necessity which called for the alteration
of these penal enactments has been long, and generally,
if not unequivocally, admitted ; and even amongst those
who formerly looked to the severity of the law for the
security of their property, we new find some of the most
strenuous advocates of that modification, which Bene-
%olence has long prompted, but which Justice now clic-
rites—nay, demands. And yet, though the dreadful
disdroportion of the punishment to the offence—in minor
i:Jees—has rendered the existing law RS inefficient, as its
?..ivisions were snnguinary and crue!,—aiiil though many
vf the most humane and enlightened beings that ever
d.iiirlied the Senate or the Bar have called for a revision
reform of the abhorrent and unmitigated severity of
these statutes ; we find the Legislature approaching the
v.liject with as much caution and tenderness as if they
.ottr,d :lie very maintenance of the Constitution might •
b. ei.iLagered by the correction of its slightest abuse.
Ali that Mr. Peee's Bill proposes formally to do—the
eueesive rigour of the law has already virtually accom-
plisheil: —as we observed on the first reading of that
Bill. " in the cases which Mr. Peer. has selected for the
eercise of a merciful spirit, he has done no more than
the sanguinary and ferocious spirit of the law had done
before, in rendering the law itself a dead letter." And
ss fur the work is iinworthy the name of Reform, and is,
at best, ad idle mockery —" not only useless," as it is
well observed in ;in able article in the lieradof this day,
'• but calculated to be mo detrimened to the public in-
terests than leaving the law as it is, in all its indisciimi-
.e.ite and ut.:e7:teed ferocity.- The enactments, as they
stand, arc alike repugnant to common sense and hu-
nemity, and subversive of the great principle of Justice,
"hick is, and ever s/toulti be. the prevention of crime
and tte prc.teetion of property : yet wo find even the
shallow attempt that has been made to delude the public
lianil into a Mid' that some substantial improvement is
..eutemplated---w'..eie, in fact, no improvement whatever
enared—euiogized by lawyers, and statesmen, and
as if, insteiel of merely omitting those cases
•u %oiiet. the capital punishment has not been carried
ticket of late years—which is all that Mr. PEEL has
- the Bill now before the House were totally to abolish
"41,4111 putikiiiatit fo:. th" crime for forgery. Mr. PEEL
i.tbettrs for " the preservetion of the old barbarous
principle ;" " those members who profess to ad-
v4site a Reform of the Laws," instead of opposing
" Bill, and resisting its further progress, profess
their tinwillitiv.ess ag Mr. B ROUG H A )1 has done
-•••• to impede the progress of the measure;" and, like
ir Islets Mace
nevelt'. Ki•te their hearty support to
•• the principle of the Bill considered as mitigating and
eensolidating tile laws rcllceting forgery." It may
'onlalidate," Sir JA Nut:, bat it " mitigates " no jot

of that severity which the feolinp of m mtiind had not
-encored nugatory long before.
far, do we consider the conduct of the Legisiatur..,
in tolerating the proposed measure of eVilftioll—for it is
nothing better,.—but little creditable to the liberality and
enlightened policy to which its members !ay claim. And
we must own it is as little creditable to the hutnanity of
the country, to find that the expres4an of public opinion
—which, since the execution of Dr. Donn, has been
opposed to the cruelty of the exi,ting law—sholld, on
such an occasion, be limited to one hundred petitions ;
hitherto ?me " come so tardy off" as to require,:
at this, Me eleventh hour, the delay of another fort-'
night, to enable the opponents of capital punishiaews
to state their wi.,bes to the House.

The advices from Buenos Ayres, received thi.s morn-
ing, are to the 3th of February. They contain informa-
tion from Mendoza, setting forth that several combats
had taken place in Chili, between the army of the PRE
SIDENT of that Republic, and his opponent General
Pr ERT E ; but without any decided result. The Commis-
sioners from Buenos Ayres to Cordova, had proposed a
suspension of bostilites ; and it was affirmed that General
QuIROU A —to whom the matter had been referred by the
Government of Cordova--had, contrary to expectation,
acceded to the mediation of the Buenos Ayres Autho-
rities.

Accounia received this day from Rio Janeiro to the
4th March exclusive, state that the Emperor Don PE into
had returned to Rio, quite recovered froM the effects of
his late accident. Private letters mention that, in ge-
neral, the Brazilian subjects of the F..SIITIZOR were de•
cidodly averse to any interference with Portugal : they
desire that Brazil and Portugal should be considered as
distinct kingdoms. This sentiment seems to have had
the effect of interrupting that good understanding which
invariably characterised the Government and allegiance
between the Em PEROR and his people ; and it is added
that he abruptly dismissed his Deputies.

We have Sydney Papers this morning, to the 18th
November. The fertilising, rains, had at that period re-
moved all the apprehensions that had been entertained of
a failure in the crops by the previous drought. When
these accounts came away, the corn wore a very fair ap-
pearance, with the exception of the wheat in the poor
upland districts, which was said to be rather stunted in
growth.

CITY, TwELve o'CLocK.

Comols which left off yesterday at 9231 for the account, opened
at the same price this morning, since which they have been selling
at 923: at present they are 923 buyers, with little doing; for money
921 f. In the Foreign Market the favourite operation this morning
is in Greek Stock, which has got up 3 per cent. and done at 50.
Spanish bonds much the same as yesterday.
Buenos Apes Papers of the 7th February, and Sydney Gazettes
to the 4th of N3vember, bare been received at the North and South
American Coffee-house.

From the Buenos Ayres Papers.
Various rumours have been in circulation during the week res-
pecting the situation of the interior provinces. It was asserted that
General Quiroga had been killed. This report was fathered on the
Chargé d'Affaires of the United States, who caused N. Forbes to
contradict it in an official letter.

It had likewise been rumoured in town that the Governor of Tu.
email, Lopes, had been defeated by General Quiroga but we
know not on what foundation the report rests.
Another report obtained circulation by letters from the interior,
that shortly after the occupation of Cutamarca, by Colonel Villa.
fart, one of Quiroga's Chiefs, the Tucaman troops, having re.
ceived some ;reinforcements, made an attempt to regain that city,
and were repulsed, with the losa:of 100 men killed. Tucaman was
pushing towards Tucaman, where a popular insurrection was said
to hate taken place in favour of the fedral party.
Gen. Quiroga, contrary to expectation, it is affirmed, has acceded
to the mediation of the Government of Buenos Ayres.

It is said that an incursion into the Northern districts of this
province has been made by the Indians.
We arc informed by letters from Mendoza that there were several
combats near Santiago, in Chili, in Dec. last; but without any
result.

Accounts from Monte Video state that a disagreement had taken
place between the two Ministers of that State, General Fructuors
Rivera, and General Lavalleja. The latter, in consequence, has
resigned. Exchange on London 71 per dollar.
The Sydney Papers do not contt:n any late accounts frotn the
Swan River.

From fir above Papers.
By t: e Amity we have received the distressing news that no less
than four vessels, on their (u►ssage for this Port, have been wrecked
in Tones streights.

11A IS.PAST ONE.

Reports are again in circulation of a loan having been ptivattly
contracted fur by the Emperor of Brazil, in behalf of his daughter,
Donna Maria, but we are positively assured, that notwithstand ng
the attempt in certain quarters to embroil the Brazil with Portugal.
by making offers, there eakts no Intention at Rio to authorise %itch
procecdirgs. Within a abort period the Consol Market ha+ become
very heavy.

Console, which were in the early part of the morning at 92i to
93, have receded to 924 I for the. Account, and 92j i for Money.
This retrograde movement is again attributed to his Majesty's
health, who is reported to be worse. Letters from Windsor up to
seven o'clock last night, state that no change has taken place.
Prince Levien, going to take his departure hum this Country, bag
also had some effect to lower the Fundy.

Up to the present hour we do not hear of any 11press from Putiw
In the Foreign market, Greek is not so good as in the early par:
of the day, when they were done at 50, but have since receded to
49: Brasil Bonds have improved per cent. ; Spanish has also got
up about 1 per cent. In other Foreign Securities, little doing.
As yet, no Bulletin of his Majesty's health has reachekthe City.

The East Retford Bill, now before the House of Lords,
is likely to be a serious affair. Twenty witnesses were
before ordered ; yesterday the attendance of about thirty
other witnesses was ordered 1 The examination of wit-
nesses, it is arranged, will take place from five till eleven
o'clozk each night, till the business is I:imposed of. The
witnes,;es will be examined at the bar.
The Gazette de France states that as toon as the ex-
pedition shall have arrived in sight of the African shole,
the first step to be taken will be to disembark the men.
Every foot soldier will be provided with thirty cartridges.
The spades, shovels, pickaxes, and other tools, will be
next put on shore, in order that the men may be able to
iatrench themselves immediately, if it should be neces-
sary. The field batteries will follow, and, should thesea-
son prove favourable, it is impossible that the army be
not in possession of the town and citadel within a fort-
night after the disembarkation.