Star.
London, England, 1830-06-23 00:00:00

IMNDON.

WEDNESDAY. JUNE 23.

" WINDSOR CASTLE, JUNE 23, 1830.

.• The Kir:a is still troubled by hie cough, but it has
not interrupted his rest; and his MAJESTY awoke re-
freehed this morning.
(Signed)

" HENRY HALFORD.
" MATTHEW J. TIERNEY."

We have a file of the Mauritius Gazettes of the 24th
of February. They contain an Ordinance of his Excel-
lency, the Governor, for the purpose of prolonging the
term fixed and determined, by the Proclamation of the
9th of December last, for the completion of the Bien-
nial Census, conformably to the Order in Council, of the
30th of January, 1826. The term for the delivery of
the Census Returns is extended to the Ist of March,
1830. The provisions of the Proclamation of the 9th of
December, 1829, are maintained.
We have a Port of Spain Gazette of the 3d May.
His Excellency LEWIS GRANT, the Governor, had
issued a Proclamation, stating that several of the most
respectable Proprietors of Cocoa Estates, having re-
ported that the reduced price of Trinidad Cocoa has
arisen from an undue practice of mixing up the bad,
and inferior qualities, with the good, and thereby de-
ceiving the purchaser, the Governor deems it necessary,
in order to restore the reputation of the article, that no
Cocoa shall in future be exported from Trinidad, before
it has undergone a minute examination and inspection,
by a person appointed for that purpose ; his fee for such
being one bit for every 1001bs. save in cases where he
may be called to inspect at any place, more than
two miles distant from Port of Spain. The Colonial
Treasurer was ordered not to grant clearances to any
vessel, on board of which Cocoa was shipped, without
the Inspector's Certificate. This Proclamation was to
take effect from the Ist day of June, 1830, and was to
continue until the Ist of January, 1832.

We have received Prince Edward Island papers to the
3d May. The House of Assembly had passed a Bill for
the relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, by
which they are placed, with respect to civil rights, on a
footing with their Protestant fellow subjects. The Coun-
cil, however, had affixed a clause, suspending its opera-
tion until the Royal assent was obtained. In addition to
the suspending clause, the Council proposed a number of
additional ones to the Bill. Such amendments as were
merely of a verbal nature, or which tended to make the
sense of the Legislature more clear, were, without hesita-
tion, adopted by the House of Assembly ; but the House
rejected the clause requiring all Roman Catholics, voting
at elections, to take the oath at the hustings. The oath
was of great length, and the time limited for elections
would be insufficient for administering the oath to half
the number that might be expected to offer themselves.
The other clauses added by the Council, related chiefly
to the exclusion of Jesuits, of whose introduction to the
Island much apprehension seems to be entertained. Ano-
ther conference had, however, been held upon the subject of
the amendments, and the result had been the withdrawal
by the Council of the suspending clause, and all the
other amendments to which the Hou.se of Assembly had
not previously signified their concurrence, with the ex-
ception of the following addition to tho oath :—" and I
do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any in-
tention to subvert the present Church Establishment, as
settled by law within this realm."

Although not a subject so important as that to which
we have frequently called the attention of our Readers,
there was a subject which might have been expected
last night to have come under the discussion of
the House of Commons, and to have obtained the at-
tendance of what is technically called a House.—We refer
to Colonel SIBTIIORPE.B expected motion, the object of
which is, to legalise the publication of the Parlia-
mentary Debates, and to afford better accommodation to
the Reporters. As we cannot but think that this question,
although not involving the fate of nations, does involve
the character of this nation, for the practical good sense
which Englishmen are so prone to think exclusively their
own, we confess ourselves mortified, that it appears not
sufficiently to interest those who have the character of
tier ountry so much under their protection.
U is amusing to look back a little to the past, and trace
the progress which good sense and popular privileges
have made on this *object. Ws have to turn our eyes,
Srst to a time whea what was done within the House was
not allowed to transpire without;—then to a time when