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LONDON.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14.

•„* The Proprietors of Tim STAR, with a view to con-
tribute their mite in aid of the various great questions now
pending. make a tender of their columns to insert Resolu-
tions of Public Meetings at HALF THEIR USUAL MODE-
RATE RATE OF CHARGE, and as THE STAR is in establish-
ed circulation throughout the United Kingdom, the advan-
tages of such reciprocal communications between public
bodies must be obvious. The copy of such resolutions may
either be sent per post, or through the Printers of local
Newspapers.—ln the Panorama, since its commencement
on January 1, will be found the best, and often the only
account of the proceedings of such Meetings, which has
appeared in any London Paper.

Thia day, despatches were received at the Foreign Office
from Lord Viscount GRANVILLE, our Ambassador at Paris;
and from the Right Hon. Sir CHARLES BAGOT, our Am-
bassador at the Hague.

At one o'clock a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign
Office, and was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the
Marquis of LANIDOWN, Earl GREY, Lord DURHAM,
Viscount MELBOURNE, ViSCOUnt PALMERSTON, Viscount
ALTHORP, the Earl of CARLISLE., the Right Hon. C.
Git wr, and Lord HOLLAND.

In our Foreign intelligence of this day, we announce a
most important political event, the truth of which there ap-
pears no reason to doubt. We allude to the insurrection said
to have broken out in Italy. In addition to the short notice
of it which has reached us, in common with our contempo-
raries, our Readers will find further mention of it in our ex-
clusive intelligence. To remark on the consequence ofl
insurrection in Italy, with our present imperfect information
on the facts, would, we conceive, be unnecessary and pre-
mature.
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It will be seen from our exclusive extracts from the
French Papers, what is evidently the purport of all private
letters, that the Spanish Government continues active in
its warlike preparations.

information is said to have been received, this day, from
C,onstentinople, which must prove, should it be coufirmed,
of not less importance to the politics of Europe, than even
an insurrection in Italy ; vis—that the Turks are not blind
to the embarrassments of Russia, from the revolution

in Poland, and they are recommencing hostilities against
Russia. This, certainly, is a moment when such
an event is not improbable to occur ; and if the insur-
rection in Italy, and renewed hostilities in Turkey, both oc-
cur in the present position of Continental affairs, it is impos-
sible to conceive what would be the result of involvements
so extremely complicated.

The intelligence from Warsaw of the 31st January is
encouraging. The Diet and the two Councils have ap-
pointed a National Government. RADZIVIL, as Comman-
der-in-Chief, has left Warsaw for the army.
An interesting Address of the late Dictator CH LOPIC K I
will be found in our Foreign News.

The rumoured new Protocol of the five mediating
Powers, appears to the plain sense of the British
Public, as reported, to be so little pertinent to the
legitimate purposes of mediation, as to be, in plain
language, VZRY lIIPERTIS gin. To flatter one of
them, the Belgians yielded their own preference, in favour
of the Due de Nemou RS : be is made to decline ; and now
they are told, that if they choose him, whose pretensions are
of the first order, he will not be acknowledged by these con-

federates, one of whom derives his title from the choice of
the people, in 1688, and the other from popular choice, so
late as July 1830. As byestanders, we exhort the Bel-
gians to one of two measures,—either to choose the Duc de
Leticuree BERG, at all hazards, and trust to the affection
of Europe, or to elect a President for four, years, on the
American plan, and make their stand under the wings
of the Genius of Liberty, who usually assures victory to
her faithful children. To create popular confusion, and,
amid its distractions, to force the Prince of ORA WOK on
the Belgians, is the palpable object of these mediating
Powers ; but in this policy there is so much injustice,
that the Belgians, to a man, ought to resist and resent
it. The Republican Government is most suited to the
intelligence and position of the Belgians ; and if they
proclaim it, they will not be long without imitators and
allies. Let them take counsel of that truly honest man,
DE Porr Ea ; translate and adopt the Constitution of
WAsniNcTos, ADAMS, and FRANKLIN; and they will
thereby exalt themselves among the nations of the earth ;
and through the moral power of liberty and justice, main-
tain their independence. But not an hour should escape—
if they deliberate, they are lest ! The patriots of France
will, at least, not suffer Republican Belgium to be trampled
upon as such.

As organs of the public voice we are bound to declare,
that it is not favourable to the preference given to new
taxes which affect freedom of trade and action, instead of a
tax on property, which should reach all those who have
fattened and are still fattening on the spoils of the people,
by avaricious accumulations, which public circumstances
have favoured. It should be a tax which should reach
mortgages, ground rents, and money jobbers especially; and
whatever be its rates on real property it should be double on
non-residents. Such a tax would produce ten millions,
and supersede the petty details now in contemplation, as
well as the malt tax, soap tax, certain grades of assessed
taxes, and all taxes on knowledge. If such is the opinion
of the people, no time ought to be lost in convening public
meetings, and in conveying the sentiments of the country to
Parliament, or at least to the Finance Minister.

We hare from day to day collected from the Journals, &c.
of the time, scraps, and facts, calculated to promote the
success of tho desirable measure of Parliamentary Reform;
and we call atteutiou to an article in our first page;
because it contains a masterly production, which ought to
be road, nut through the STA a, but every paper in England.
Mr. BAILKY is in every sense qualified to speak for the
electors of England. lie is a gentleman who has acquired
a liberal fortune by a long course of honourable industry in
Nottingham, of which great town it is the peculiar boast,
that

no man in it eats the bread of idleness. His fair fame
among his neighbours, the best fame which a man can enjoy,
raised in bim at the last election, a rival to the two
seated members for Nottingham ; and if honour and
honesty had prevailed over corporate powers of making
votes, the country would have enjoyed the services of
such a man in that house, where such men are always
wanted. We take the liberty to subjoin this notice, because
the tract quoted, and the former work, will necessarily
raise questions about the author. At the same time, Mr-
BAILEY bas long been known in the midland counties as
aman of letters ; and his patriotic muse is likely tobe quoted
and admired as long as liberty is cherished.

German papers, received this morning, convey encou-
raging news respecting the Poles. The enthusiasm daily
increases ; and even the Allgemeine Zeitung, acknowledges,
unwillingly, " that the lower classes are already so far en-
, lightened, that they will not serve as the mere instruments
of the ambition of the Nobles" :