Star.
London, England, 1830-04-09 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALKS.

Mr. HUM E movedf;JrcturasCri the IZOle expense of the civil
establishment at New South Wales, distinguishing the names of all
persons receiving more than M. a-year, and of such as Oiled more
offices than one.—Ordered. . _ .

Mr. HUME wished to ask whether Mr. Durnaresque, the brother.
in-law of General Darling, bad been appointed to the dace of T'res.
surer of that colony ?
No answer was given.
Sir RONALD FERGUSON presented a petition from Stirling,
against the East India monopoly.—Laid upon the table.
Lord CLIVE presented a petition from the high sheriff, land-
holders, &c. of Montgomeryshire, against the proposed alteration
in the Welshjudicature.
Sir W. SCOTT moved for a return of the machinery exported
from the United Kingdom during the last six years.
Mr. DICKENSON presented a petition from. town in Somer.
setsbire. against opening the trade in beer.
Mr. BRIGHT moved for a return of the quantity of tobacco im.
ported and manufactured in Great Britain and Ireland, since ISM
FORGERY.

Mr. LENNARD presented a petition from the bankers and mer.
chants of Woodbridge, county of Suffolk, against the punishment
of death foe forgery. • There was a prevalent feeling in that neigh-
bourhood against such a sanguinary punishment; and he sincerely
hoped that the same feeling existed among the bankers and mer-
chants of London.

Mr. TRANT concurred in the prayer of the petition ; and hews
glad to find time a more humane feeling was beginning to prevail
very generally respecting the severe punishment for these offences.
An eminent banker had stated to him that day, that on one occasion
be bad prosecuted an individual for forgery, and afterwards used
every endeavour to obtain a remission of capital punishment, but
in vain. He bad been so dietamml at the unfortunate result, that it
was his determination never spit M Nevto for forgery. He be-
lieved a very general hang among banters that the
punishment of death for hegsay ought to be abolished.
E BUXTON said be had received several letters from most
respectable individuals la Nikon places, expressing their strong
drake that the capital punishment should be abolished. The first
was'heos a honker In °lour:ester, in which he stated that for his
part (aid ha knew such was the sentiment of many others in the
same lie of business), he would rather be exposed to any loss than
peoeseues he the capital offence. The next letter was from a re-
spostehie elergyman in Glasgow. The following is an extract :
The lookers to a man have been favourable. lam given to on.
dinned hat there is hardly a bank in town (if, indeed, there be
• ores one) that has not been in circumstances in which they have
robed* to prosecute, rather than expose the offender to the cer-
tainty; or even the risk of death ; and this forbearance has been ex..
euuinsloseedrnes in circumstances of an aggravated nature.
TM did waa from a banker in Newcawie, and was as follows
now with to offer you my testimony on the subject of forgery,
in ecellemsdon of your sentiments expressed in the house. My mind
its log bass distressed with' the' present law. .1 gladly embraced
the dot opportunity to do what could for its mitigation, and lady
Wok moo polio he ibrwarding a petition from hence. praying hit
imams Is peaty should be short of the forfeiture of life. The
potion of the banks in this town signed, under the pm•
demi andeden that the severity of the lawwas not a peone ial to
as, Ind Gods& to increase tits crime.. I also called on our
owsoss, who .conad
rod in the same sentiment, and k
ft. Tie ow be said to be universal in this district. • •
He
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not hat
they MI a sight to take sway the life of a fellow-
coatis, he ollosefigaint proy. „
Mr. WARBURTON soM• was .* very. strong, impression
NOW site eapltalythin sellebutent, not only: ISLIJOACIOn•bUt in the coun-
t o was quite sure a. Judicious alteration
watrilrageteda nolthe law, and dte capital offencealioliehed• these would
be an laoloddtly pekoe protection *inn the offence; had no
. tairehaat cook tor drkhiare'have any just viands of conrplaint:
The public holing was ev at the capital ptudaboot, at
host so eOgoda+l description. •
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LONDON.

FRIDAY, APRIL 9.

GOOD FRIDAT.-jCLOSZ HO►.IDAY.

Whatever may be the result of the measures now so
actively pursued by the French Ministry, with the osten-
sible object of resenting the insult offered by the Alge-
rine power to the flag of France, we at least enjoy the
conscious satisfaction of having been the first to develop
the more ambitious projects, which were veiled under the
plausible pretext of asserting the national honour. To
the STAR, exclusively, does the merit belong of having
directed die attention of the people to the deep and dan-
gerous designs of territorial conquest, and maritime ag-
grandisement, which we now find openly alluded to by
the French Journals; and which the official organs of that'
Government have not been authorised to deny. In our
Paper of March the 27th, we deprecated the apathy with
which the British Cabinet witnessed the preparations
which have so long been making at Toulon for the inva-
sion of Barbary ; and we drew, from the nature of those
preparations, and the formidable extent of the armament,
an inference, which was warranted by our own knowledge
of French affairs and of the disposition so long cherished
by France, to augment her territories in a quarter so de-
cidedly favourable to the advancement of her maritime
interests,—that nothing short of conquest and possession
was aimed at by the invading expedition. We pointed
out the advantages of soil and climate that Barbary of-
fered to the inhabitants of the southern coasts of France ;
the means of defence that the shores of Africa presented ;
and the paramount consideration of the influence, if not
the decided and exclusive mastery, that France might
thus obtain over the vast sweep of the Mediterranean.
To every country " washed by that far sea," she might
dictate ; and, strengthened by the support of the surround-
ing states, so long persecuted by those Algerine barba-
rians, her power would soon become absolute and uncon-
trollable. We concluded the observations, which we
then made upon this important subject, by pointing out,
as the reward of her enterprise, the means she would thus
acquire of opening " a well guarded outlet to the Atlan-
tic, and new harbours for her outward cruisers, by ex-
tending her influence with her neighbours of Morocco ;
and thus redder Gibraltar useless as a key,—by closing the
gate.' How far our anticipations were justified by the
circumstances from which they arose, may be shown by a
reference to the subjoined extracts from contemporary
prints. An Evening Paper of Wednesday, contained the
following paragraph :

" A Parisian Journal of high reputation assumes as unqueatioa.
able that the conquest of Algiers epee achieved by France, its per-
manent occupation by that Power follows as a matter of course.
This sentence, if it mean any thing, means a permanent military
occupation. We doubt the fact of any such occupation entering
into the calculations of those who have planned the expedition, and
we are pretty certain that if any such ultimate consequence does
enter into their calculations, that there ate other parties to be eon.
suited, by no means likely to acquiesce in the project. It is perhaps in.
judicious to stop to notice speculations which, if seriously announced,
are too nearly akin to absurdity to delude or to alarm; and if meant
jocularly, are too clumsy to provoke a smile; but we know that at-
tempts are made at this, as well as the other, side of the water, to
draw inferences little warranted by the actual position or the pro.
bible progress of affairs. We repeat, without fear of contradiction,
that the harmony of the two great neighbouring Powers, England
and France, has been, and is, cordial and uninterrupted, and their
communications on the projected expedition explicit and satisfac-
tory."

That the Government scribe, from whose columns we '
have selected this passage, should endeavour to cast an
air of ridicule and doubt upon a suspicion that every day
gains ground in France,—and, we venture to predict, will
yet become a subject of lasting reproach to the credulity
and culpable indifference of English Ministers,—is by no
means surprising :—but that we should now be required,
with the bitter experience of the Turkish campaign, and
the triumphs of the magnanimous NICHOLAS, before us,
to place any reliance on the assurances thus offered, that
the " communications on the projected expedition" are

explicit and satisfactory between " the two great neigh-
bouring powers,England and France," is really " too bad."
—.Whilst the army of the CZAR was striding onward in
the march of spoliation, the "harmony of the two great
Powers, England and Russia," was then, too, " cordial

and uninterrupted ;" and " their communications on the
expedition" were "explicit and satisfactory."—Explicit
and satisfactory, no doubt, to the courteous and compro-
mising diplomatists of " the two great Powers" and to the
rapacious Russ ; but fatal to the interests of England—
utterly subversive of the high character she once se
proudly and so jealously maintained; and destructive of
her continental influence.—We have not space to-day
to pursue this vitally important topic ; but we shall resume
it to-morrow. The annexed extract is of moment :-
1 " The Ague of ?Odom, 1aya...4 If some pumas are to be be.
lieved, the expand= at Africa, and net dose of Algiers, bee fee
object the occupation by France at the three Reredos of Algiers,
Tunis, and Tripoli. Some desks that Prance should attempt to
occupy them three Reredos in ads to cede them to the Pavia of
Egypt, who may she be sothenedeeneng the nambee of CkemPowees,
and oppme with Turkey the agramilmment of Russia. Othees,
an the mateary, wish, that by bee eetabbidng blade on the mew
of Miro, Flame should endsavese to provent, in awe of sessesity,
the emesdpsties of Egypt, by which the Impwor Minim woad
refit, la edit to down the pedal equilibehia of lerelps, and
Weenie with more facility ble raised of invades. But 6w proem
Wow thee the eqwlities is demised to net orbit Algiers done.
—lt is aria mewed thee the disendweitatien of the troops will

take place at Tuffs.Chiquetta, a Tone-Chick a small port, ahici
is only defended by an old tower, in ruins. From thence the atntv
may ascend a mountain, situated opposite Cape Canine, and t4'.f.
possession of the heights which dominate Algiers."

Thebaneful influence of that system of taxation
now, like a monstrous incubus, presses down the vital
energies of the country, has been so frequently expowl
in all its hideous deformity, and in all its most fearful
shapes, without exciting either the sympathy or the re
morse of Ministers, that we almost question the utility of
complaint, petition, or remonstrance, however contitu-
tional the object, or urgent the prayer. But if we thus
admit the apparent hopelessness of such appeals to the
Legislature, when they firmly, boldly, yet temperately
breathe the legitimate language of deep suffering, and de-
precate tho continuance of such a system ; what result
can we anticipate from an address to Parliament in which
the necessities of the people are overlooked in the anxiety
to conciliate those who have evinced so little disposition
to alleviate their sufferings?—C Es Aa, we are told, counted
nothing done, while aught remained to do. Our Minis-
ters do nothing—and yet talk as if nothing had been left
undone. The distresses of the country are unparalleled—
and the load of taxation no longer endurable ; and by way
of easing the burthen, and restoring prosperity with the
touch of a Harlequin's wand, they make a mighty parade
of relief, which, when examined, amounts—not to any
present or effectual good—but to a promise to remit, six
months hence, a duty which is to effect the immense reduc-
tion of three farthings in every quart of beer !—whilst, in
fact, they instantaneously impose an additional tax on
spirits. And such they tell us, is all the relief they can pos-
sibly afford, at the very moment when they maintain a host
of placemen, pensioners, and sinecurists, in undiminished
affluence—affluence, too, drained from the scanty earn-
ings of 'the suffering people. The petition adopted at the
Huntingdon Meeting, is of the class to which W 3 have re-
ferred, as calculated to produce no beneficial result.
whilst it is liable to the more serious objection of giving
Parliament credit for relief, that is as yet but prospec-
tive ; and for " a desire to alleviate the national distress,"
which we contend has been but imperfectly, and, at best,
unsuccessfully manifested.

However our feelings of indignation may be excited b}•
the apostacy of those amongst our contemporaries, from
whom the people have a right to look for honest and un-
shrinking support in such a crisis ; we do not the less
warmly hail their return to that path, from which we la-
ment that they ever for one moment were tempted to
swerve. The Globe of yesterday evening has one short
comment on the Huntingdon Petition, which almost atones
for its recent " backsliding, :"

" The declaration of the opinion of the people of Huntingdon,
that the establishments of the country • are greatly beyond what are
necessary for the administration of justice and the protection of the
empire and its dependencies against foreign aggression, the may ob.
*ls for which government is instituted,' will meet with more ge.
neral assent. The conviction of the unnecessary extravagance of
the public expenditure since the peace is not only undiminished, but
becoming more firmly rooted than ever in the country ; and the
Government, to retain any bold of the good opinion of the people.
must proceed with its economical reforms. When are we to expect
the result of the promised investigation of the colonial expenditure?"

Yea, more:—Government must "proceed with its eco-
nomical retrenclments," if it would regain any hold upon
the good opinion of the people; and the Globe must
pursue the same bold and independent tone of remon-
strance, to retain its hold upon popular favour. Yet, in
the possession of such facts as our contemporary has bad
the means of acquiring, we are at a loss to conceive how
he could be prevailed upon to misrepresent the actual
state of the country, or to re-echo the delusive declara-
tions of those who were, and still are, wilfully blind to the
distresses of the people. One consequence of the condi-
tion to which the kingdom has been reduced, he has thee
forcibly pointed out :

" We stated a few days ago, on the authority of a respectable

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Correspondent resident in Kent, that emigration is becoming very
general among the small farmers, and other persons who hare pe.
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euniary means for removal. By another communication from the
same genthman, we learn that the rage for emigration is rapidly
spreading, and that many of the landowners of Kent are likely to
bare their farms thrown suddenly on their hands. Most of the per-
sons who are preparing to leave their homes. express their intention
of proceeding to the United States."—

Alas ! for England !—Must her's, too be, the deserted
Village, and the uncultured soil ?—must she, too. bloom
" a garden and a grave?"

" Thus fares the land by luxury betrayed,
In Nature's simplest charms at first arrayed,
But verging to decline,—its splendors rise,
Its virtues strike, its palaces surprise;
While scourged by famine from the smiling land,
The mournful peasant leads his little band;
And while he sinks without an arm to save,
The country blooms—s flanks mid a grove!

We said yesterday—and the truth cannot be too often
repeated, " till it grows into the currency of a proverb,"
—" that until union prevails in the councils of the Re-
formers, the question of Reform may be discussed and

advocated—but it never can succeed." There must be an
amalgamation of interests—the adoption of one grand
principle, to warrant even the hope of its success : and how
far the views of the professed,as well u of the most zealous.
advocates of the cause coincide, we may soon see by con-
trasting some passages of the Declaration of the BI K-
MINGIIAMPOLITICALUN lON,With the avowed sentiments
of the individual under whose auspices the Metropo-
litan Reform Association was founded. At the first meet-
ing of that Association, DANIEL O'CONNELL presided;
and the principles which he then promulgated were re-
ceived and sanctioned as the fundamental principles of the
Association. Mr. O'CoNN £LL said, " The principle of
Universal Suffrage is the only rational, just, and honest
principle." The BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNIOR *-
dares, that" Universal Suffrage in its full extent is not a
clear, defined, and acknowledged constitutional AOC'
O'CoN usu. said, " Without the Vote by Bal-
lot, the extension of the suffrage would be an evil.--
He should stoutly contend for the ballot. The ballot
he wanted, and he would -never be satisfied without
it."—The BIRMINGM•M POLITICAL UNION declares,
Ale the Yoh by Ballot is net known to the Coe-

stitution ; that it cannot be claimed as a constitutional
light by the people." Mr. O'CoN NELL prOpOSeS " the
-ole:tion to be for two years, because that mode has been
tried in America ;"—while many of those who coincide
ith him on the points of Universal Suffrage and Vote by
Ballot, insist upon Annual Parliaments. The Bin-
e iNGIIAM POLITICAL UNION declares, that" Annual
Parliaments are not a clear, acknowledged, indisputable,
constitutional right; and that it may be doubted, whe-
ther they would work better for the people, than their un-
deniable constitutional principle of Triennial Parlia-
ments :"—And the Declaration further states, that " the
doctrines of Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and
Annual Parliaments, may be calculated to weaken the
cause of Reform." The difference of opinion and of prin-
ciple here set forth, must be destructive to the attain-
meut of any great political object; and, as no political
object, however greet or popular, can be just that is
not also strictly constitutional, we must say, that the only
principle of Reform which we can honestly approve,
or conscientiously advocate, is that promulgated by the
BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION.

CITY, TWELV Y. O'CLOCK.

This day being Good Friday, it is kept in the City as a strict
holiday,—all public resorts for commerce being closed, with the
exception of the Post.OfEce, which delivers, as usual, the letters.
We have no arrivals of consequence. The Jamaica and Mexican
packets are still due. It was reported at Liverpool that the New
York packet of the 10th ult. was off that port.
Accounts from Sweden, to the 20th March, state that the King
hm closed the Sessions. His Majesty, in his speech, gives much
raise to his Ministers. The debt has been reduced from 53 mil.
lions to 44 millions ; the exterior relations are on the most amicable
footing.

Accounts from Constantinople state, that the Turkish fleet con.
slits at present of nine call of the line, of which two are three.
deckers, one of 140 guns, aed the other 130 guns ; eight frigates,
and 20 large corvettes.

Account; from Paris state, that the Algerines are making great
preparations for their defence against the French expedition. The
roads front the sea coast, leading to the fortress, are lined with
batteries.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

The Countess of Home, at Lord Dunglaa's, in Charles-street,
Berkeley-square ; Lord Francis Osborne, in New Norfolk-street,
Park-lane, from the Oog-Magog Hills; the Hon. General Upton
and the Hon. Arthur Upton, at the Hon. Oreville Fulke Howard's,
in Grosvenor-square ; H. L. Bulwer, Esq. at Bryant's Hotel, Con.
duit street ; Sir Gilbert Stirling, at ditto, from Italy ; the Rev. J.
Walsh, at ditto, from Ireland ; Colonel Gabriel, in Piccadilly ; the
Hon. Captain Legge, at the Knightsbridge Barracks ; Lady Ala-
tiltla AVynyard, Tn Orchard-street; Captain Hanbury Williams,
rt.N., in Gr'roavenor-street ; Major and Mrs. Lemon, in Cursen-
street, from Dublin ; Mr. Edward Maurice Fitzgerald, In Picca-
dilly; Major and Mrs. Singleton, in Park-street, from Berlin ; Mr.
and Mrs. Archdeacon, in Grosvenor-street, from Paris; Captain
and Mrs. Lawson, in Brook-street, from a tour : Colonel Duggan,
at Morley's Hotel, Cockspur-street, fkom Bath.