Star.
London, England, 1830-12-31 00:00:00

CORN-EXCHANGE-THIS DAY.

Our supplies are short, though a few vessels have arrived, from
which samples had been before forwarded. There are not many persons
it•. the market, but trade is somewhat better, the frost being nearly gone.
There is no alteration in prices.

IMPORTATIONS SINCS HONDAT.
Wheat, English (qrs.) 3,500 f Barley, Foreign .
Irish . , Oats, English
Foreign - . 1,701) Trish .
Barley, English - 5,800 Foreign
Irish - . Flour (sacks)

- 300
- - 4,400
- 5,500

- 3,700

COAL-EXCHANGE-THIS DAY.

Only nine new ships were entered for sale to-day ; but owing to the
little business done on the two last market days, there was an abundant
supply of Coal at market. •
Ships arrived during this month
During the week
Best li'allsend Coals
other sorts
Ships at Market, 14!s .

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. 27, will be
published on Friday, the Slit hut. eontaining the following
Artieln :

I. Popular Defensive Force. 11. Lesson's History of Man. 111.
Hannibal's Passage of the Alps. IV. Webster's American Dic-
tionary. V. India and China Trade. VI. Character of George IV.
VII. Scotch Parliamentary Reform. VIII. Heiress of Bruges.
IX. Maxwell. X. Belgian Revolution. XI. J. P. Cobbett's Italy.
XII. Bruce's Travels. XIII. Machine-Breaking. XIV. Ten-
nyson's Poems. XV. Basil Barrington and Friends. XVL The
Wellington Administration. XVII. European Revohnion. XVIII.
Doetrina Copulanses Lingua Latina.
Ito. 28 will be published en the 51st March, 1831.
Robert Reward, 2, Wellington-street, Strand.

Ti] E EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31.

This day despatches were received at the Colonial Office
from Sir FREDERICK ADAK, the Lord High Admiral of
the lonian Isles at Corfu, dated the 30th of November;
and from Lieut.-General the Hon. F. C. PONSOW BY,
Governor of Malta, dated the 4th of December; and
from General Sir G. Dow, Lieutenant Governor of Gibral-
tar, dated the 17th of the IMMO month.

We announced, about a week ago, that the independence
of Belgium, as a state separate from Holland, had been re
cognised by England, and the four great Continental
Powers. That fact was officially communicated to the
National Congress at Brussels, in its sitting of the 26th
instant, by M. Van DE War En. Nothing, however, can
yet be decidedly said about the choice of the Sovereign—
the appointment of whom, we formerly stated, to have been
made a special condition by the recognizing Powers.

Private Letters received by the Mail from Paris this
morning, affirm that the King of PRUSSIA is about to
publish a new and liberal form of Constitution, on the 18th
of next month. We are likewise informed, that the in-,
telligence from the north of Europe was favourable to the
preservation of peace. The Russian troops were marching
but slowly on Poland t and it seemed to be the inclination,
on all sides, to have an amicable adjustment of differences.
On the state of French politics, we recommend to the atten-
tion of our readers, the speech of M. LAFITTE, in the
Chamber of Deputies, given at length in a subsequent
column.

Information received this day from the East of Europe,
reaches down to the 26th of last month. Advices from
Constantinople state, that every thing was tranquil there;
but that, in the meantime, the Sublime PORTE was apply-
ing himself, with all diligence, to the discipline of his
troops; and repairing the breaches which were made by the
Russians, in their recent expedition across the Balkan. It
is added, that the SULTAN was about to expend vast sums
on the repair of the fortifications of Varna and Adrianople ;
and likewise, in making extensive entrenchments at the foot
of the Balkan mountains, under the directions of a French
engineer, who has resided for some time at Constanti-
nople. The SULTAN, evidently, is alarmed at the revo-
lutionary spirit which has manifested itself in the west.

Our Renders, we are convinced, must have read with
much pain, of the executions which have already taken
place, in consequence of the judicial commissions
in the agricultural districts. As we are decidedly ad-
verse to the punishment of death, for crimes of such
a nature—as we deny the right of society to make
what is termed sacrifices of life,—and have uniformly, when
discussing on the fate of culpable ministers, raised our feeble
voice strenuously on the side of mercy,—we should consider
ourselves guilty of a direlection of moral duty, were we
not to urge, with equal anxiety, that mercy should be ex-
tended towards the misled men, of a humbler slam, now
under sentence of death, for machine•breaking, and other
destruction of property. We fear from what maybe rend, in

the front of this Paper, that what has taken place on the san-
guinary system, has been hastily, and will prove to have been
for the future tranquillity of the country, injudiciously done.
Severity in the execution of laws, if it be even productive of
the tranquillity of terror, must be continuous. The sys-
tem, to ho effectual, must be persevered in; and unless
those who commence it, are of the requisite stern kind
of stuff, to persevere in the horrid system, it always
proves productive, in the future, of real mischief. we
have a Sovereign delighting in mercy ; and we anxiously
call upon his Councillors, not to allow fallacious views of
this important subject, to interrupt the exercise of that
first of Christian virtues, on which Providence has be-
nignantly conferred Power, for the preservation of this
country, in the most perilous times.
The Times yesterday, and to-day, indulges in a little
splenetic cant against COBBETT, and other public writers, as
the cause of the late outrages on property ; but surely no man
of common sense can believe, that any one of the unfortunate
boom, was actually stimulated to burn, even a single haystack,
by imbibing the doctrines of COBBETT. If any doctrines
would stimulate them to burn the property of the farmers
and landowners, some arguments which we have read in the
Times, representing " the hardheartedness" of the landlords
and farmers to have caused the distress, was much more
likely to prove the stimulus to the mischief in question.
But all sound thinkers, and honest writers, know, that
real distress, acting on ignorance, has produced the
outrages in question ; and the duty of those who con-
duct the affairs of society, should be, to see to remove the
distress, and enlighten the ignorant. We know that
such will be the anxious desire of our present honest,
and enlightened Administration. In the meanwhile, we
hope, that transportation will be the punishment of these,
whom the course of events have made distressed, and kept
ignorant.

While Special Commissions are trying starving wretches
for breaking the peace, might not means more consonant
with PUBLIC PEELING be resorted to, by the correction
of the causes, and the prevention of the consequences? Law
might have been the remedy for those who denied the dis-
tresses ; but it seems, at least, doubtful, whether it ought,
to the same extent, to be resorted to, by those who admit
thorn, and have so largely insisted on them. Would it not be a
shorter means to double our number of farms ? Would not
220,000 new farm-houses provide for all the spare labour in
the country, and restore labour to its value ? The means
would be, to rate assessments according to the size of farms ;
to abate all assessments on farm-houses built after March 1,
1831 ; and to enable the builders to mortgage on unstamped
paper. We should then see wages rise to the 15th or 20th
of the price of a quarter of wheat, the ratio of the two, for
700 years prior to the year 1790.

CITY, ONE O'CLOCK.

By the estafette from Paris this morning, it is stated that
the French Reines come much higher than the last prices,
62, 30, which has had an effect on our funds.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 821 buyers, opened
this morning at 821, soon after got up to 8211 for the ac-
count. This rise in the French funds may be attributed to
the present calm state of the above capital, and the King
and his Ministers daily gaining strength.
In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing as yet.

Montreal Papers are received at the North and South
American Coffee-house to the 26th November. AU they
contain is, that a meeting was held at York on the '23d, to
take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the Up-
per Canada Legislature for an incorporation of the town,
and for an extent of its limits.

A Lisbon Mail has arrived ; sailed on the 17th December
Also a Malta Mail; sailed 4th December, and from Gib-
raltar 17th December.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCI.

Consols continue firm at present at 821 I for the Ac-
count. The private letters from Paris say, that every thing
there will again return to complete order.
In the Foreign Market, nothing doing.

TM Tyrolese minstrels netted the sum of 15,0001. dur-
ing the time they were in England.
It is said that the Magistrates of Edinburgh have inter-
dicted the performance of Masaniello in the Scotch capital.
Mons. Deshayes, the ballet-muter of the King's Theatre,
arrived in town yesterday from Paris, to prepare the grand
ballet for the opening of the theatre.
There is in the Irish Pension List the following expensive
line—" Shaw, Robert, representative of, 24th August, 1786,
7141. lls. Bd." This pension turns out to be enjoyed by Sir R.
Shaw, of Dublin, and be explains that he inherits it ; that it
was' purchased' by his father, of course upwards of 44 years
ago; and that he has it only as the executor of another! Is
not this throwing new light into the dark recesses of the pen-
sion list system ? Pensions have always been considered as
the gift and grant of the Crown, and given for a life or lives ;
but here it appears to have been sold, and " for ever," so
that Sir Robert Shaw comes to tde " fee" as he would to
his father's freehold estate. Query—What was the rate of
purchase—who sold it —what became of the purchase-money
—and what was the pretext, if aay, for granting it ?—Tames.
There is, we hear, considerable division of opinion in the
Cabinet upon the question of Reform. Lord Althorp, Sir
J. Graham, Mr. Grant, and Mr. P. Thomson, contend fora
radical cure, while Earl Grey, the Duke of Richmond, and
Lord Palmerston, are in favour of an alterative system. In
other words, the former are desirous to introduce measures
of a far more sweeping and extensive nature than the latter
judge to be consistent with safety.—Brighton Gazette.—
Mr. Thompson is not a member of the Cabinet, and the pa-
ragraph is all fudge.— Times.
The Lord Lieutenant has addressed a circular to the Ma-
gistracy, for the purpose of intimating that he shall be ready
to meet them at any time, and in any part of the county, to
concert measures for the preservation of the public peace,
should circumstances require it. The Lancashire Yeomanry
have received orders to bold themselves in readiness to act
at a moment's notice.—Liverpool Times.
Among the more personal causes always mixed up with
public ones, which led to the movement in Poland, we may
mention the cruelty of the Grand Duke to a poor woman
who stood in the way of his troops at a review last year,
whom be beat with his own hands. This brutality, one of
many, sunk deep into the minds of the people of Warsaw.
His rudeness, and the Emperor's coldness to the Senate at
the coronation, together with his insisting on crowning
himself, disgusted the nobles—that is, the whole gentry.

THE ICING'S COURT.

BRIGHTON, Dgc. 30.

Yesterday, Lord and Lady CLINTON, Sir Wtm.isst and
Lady HOUSTON and Miss LONG, Lieutenant-General Sir
G. Anima, and Lord BTRON, were of the Royal party at
dinner.

The Band attended in the evening.
This day the KING gave audience to Mr. SAIPITUA AY,
Sheriff of Sue sex.

The Duke of Sussex and Mullis. D'Errc took a car-
riage airing.
The following calls were rade this day at the Pavilion :

Sir W. and Lady Houston and Miss Long ; Capt. Coghean ; Lieut..
Oen. Sir G. Anson ; Mr. A. Ellis ; Mr. C. Pigou ; Marquis of Bristol ;
and Sir Francis Burdett.

The first of the series of Almack's balls commenced last
night, which was numerously attended. Amongst the fa-
shionables were

The Duchess of Roxburgh, Lady Jane Peel, Lady E. Dakers, Lady
G. Seymour, Lady G. Gore, Lady and Miss MacGregor, Sir M. Lady,
and Miss Tierney, Sir O. and Lady Peacock, Miss Wykeham, Sir G.
and Lady Anson, Lady Bridport, Sir A. and Lady Gibbs, Countess of
Huntingdon. Sir T. Lady and Miss M'Mahoe, Sir C. and Lady Blunt,
Lady Campbell, Lady Freentande, Lady B. Fielding, Sir G. Westphal,
Lady Mary and Miss Sheppard, General the Hon. Mr. and Miss St
John, and about 350 others.