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London, England, 1831-03-10 00:00:00

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ONE O'CLOCK —Barometer, 29.88 ; Thi
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Til IF, EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10.

This day the Queen held a drawing-room in St. James's
Palace, which was numerously attended. Lord HILL was the
Gold Stick in waiting ; of course there was no Levee at the
Horse Guards. After the Drawing Room, the Ministers
retired to the Foreign Office in Downing-street, where a
Cabinet Council assembled, and sat for a considerable time
in deliberation.

This afternoon despatches were received from Lord
Viscount GRA N VILLE, our Ambassador at Paris ; and
from Sir CHARLES BAGOT, our Ambassador at the
Hague.

The intelligence from France by the Estafette, of this
morning is truly afflicting ; but a little contradictory. It
is stated that in the Sitting of the Chamber of the Bth inst.
a M. VtEN N ET, announced having " read a letter from the
French Ambassador in Berlin, received by express that morn-
ing ,mentioning the capture and plunder of Warsaw by the Rua-
sians ; and this intelligence appears, according to the corres-
pondent of the Morning Herald, to have been made known
likewise to the Parisians, by M. Lafitte. The latter stated,
that " Praya lead been destroyed, and Warsaw had sur-
rendered at discretion."

We find the following paragraph in the Moniteur ;
" A journal of this evening announces that the news
which was spread in the course of the day, of a great suc-
cess obtained by the Poles, originated from the Palais
Royal. This assertion is void of any foundation, And we
are authorised to declare it."—Le Moniteur.
The Moniteur does not, we conceive in the above para-
graph, go so far as to contradict the news ; but only that it
emanated officially from the Palais Royale. This may, wo
think, encourage a hope, that it would not prove authentic ; but
our Correspondent adds, that he was informed of the
news, likewise, by a gentleman who received it from the
Duke of ORLEANS. This, however, we may remark, does
not satisfactorily prove, that it was officially known at the
Palais • Royal ; for the Duke might have heard, and
believed, the purport of what M. VIES N ET stated, although
he had it, not from any authentic source. Who is M. VIEW-
? that he should become possessed of such intelligence
from an Ambassador's letters, and be the organ of making it
public in the presence of the French Ministers—and yet the
authority be denied by the Moniteur? May we not indulge
11 suspicion of its authenticity ? May we not infer, that it
lt-i been erroneously stated in the French Journal, that M.
VIES VET gave an Ambassador's letter as his authority ?
We find other paragraphs in the various French papers,
icceived this morning, quite at variance with such intelli-
e:otice—the purport of which we shall now lay before our

Le Temps says, on authority of a person in intimacy
with the KING, that Ills MAJESTY had mentioned
publicly the receipt of a dispatch, by an extraordinary
Courier from Warsaw, stating that hostilities, suspended
from the 19th to the 22d, at the request of the Russian
Generals, had recommenced on the 25th ; when, after an
obstinate battle, the Polish army had cut through and
:surrounded the Russian corps, which had retired into the
forest of Milawna; that thirty-five thousand Russians were
fugitives in the marshes, and exhausted with hunger and
fatigue, had laid down their arms.
To this sentence, Le Temps, however, adds, "SEBASTIANI'
said, in the Chamber, that the Government had received no
account of the events, so asserted to have occurred, during
t he last four days ; which is rather singular, since it is cer-
tain that a great battle has taken place. The same paper
states, in another paragraph, that the Gazette de Prerse•
and the Berlin Journals, In general unfavourable to the

Poles, afford no information of moment ; and that the Poles
in Paris are in excellent spirits, and do not believe the
Polish misfortunes.

Le National contains the following paragraph : " The
news from Warsaw, which we obtain from the Gazette
d'Etat Berlin, is dated the 25th ult. Hostilities recom-
menced between the Russians and Poles on the 25th. The
Polish army attacked and surrounded a corps of the
Russian arm), which occupied the forest of Milawna.
A brilliant success crowned that enterprise, which was
conducted with irresistible intrepidity; and it is added that
35,000 Russians had laid down their arms in the midst of
the wood, and the marshes where they had intrenched
themselves."

This last paragraph is repeated, with trivial difference in
all the Paris Journals.
Our readers have now before them all the information to
be gleaned from the French papers, received this morning, and
on examining le pour et le contre, there appears hardly
evidence sufficient to satisfy an unwilling belief en the
ruin of the Polish cause. In addition, however, to the
French accounts, and unfortunately against the suspicion
that the news is unfounded, we feel it our duty to mention,
that we stated the fall of Warsaw two days ago, on
the authority of private leters from Holland. This day we
have seen letters from Antwerp, confirming the regretted in-
telligence, that Praga was taken by storm, and Warsaw
partly destroyed by fire, previous to its surrendering at dis-
cretion.

In our subsequent columns will be found a curious corres-
pondence, between the Russian Authorities in Poland and
St. Petersburgh, proving that tho Autocrat had seriously
contemplated a war with France previous to the Polish in-
surrection. We have always suspected that Russia had hos-
tility to France in contemplation.

Our Readers will observe we are still before our con-
temporaries with our Italian news. Several of the French
papers state, that M. SEBASTIAN! Lad received from
Count D'APPONT, the Austrian Ambassador, a note, de-
claring the intention of the Austrians to interfere.

A Gentleman from Paris —says, in a private letter, that
" there is a great deal of talk of a change in the Ministry—a
partial one has already commenced, by the resignation of M.
MERILHOV. An anecdote is told, upon the truth of which
you may rely :—Marshal SOU LT, in the course of con-
versation with the Kixo, said, •' SIRE—If I were King, I
would have ODILLON BARROT shot this very night." The
King made no reply; but it may be mentioned, that
ODILLON BARROT is looked upon here, as a very dangerous
man ; he is a strong and staunch republican; and fears are
entertained, that his party will work into power, and soon
force the country into war or anarchy. The most intense
anxiety prevails here, respecting the Reform question."

At one o'clock this morning the Reform Debate termi-
nated I The SPEAKER put the question, that leave be given,
to bring in a Bill to reform the Representation of England,
and the proposition was responded to by a dense cry of at
least Two Hundred AYES ! The contrary was then put,
and answered by One, Two, Three, and Four single Noss,
like the expiring fire of musketry after defeat.
We regarded it as ominous of the fate of the vile
Boroughmongers; but no victory is certain till the enemy
are in our power, and till after the second reading; and even
till it has passed the Lords, the people of the United King-
dom must not relax their exertions. Meeting must follow
meeting, and declarations of public feelings be reiterated
and varied. We may henceforward—if the apple of discord
is removed, be a people living in enviable concord—but our
open Union, as one mind, must commence from this day.
The English question being disposed of, and two thirds of
the house having departed at a quarter after one, it was
moved, that the bill to amend the Representation of
SCOTLAND should be brought in. It was considered as a
mere consecutive form ; but a new and wily phalanx of cor-
ruption suddenly presented itself. Full thirty of the most
noted of the Scotch Members sat rank and file,with menacing
countenances, demanding further explanations than had yet
been given. This brought forward the new LORD ADVO-
CATE; and claiming 10 or 15 minutes,'he undertook to de-
' velope the entire plan. He then entered upon a dull prolix
detail, neither well analysed, nor gracefully delivered,
in which he wasted three quarters of an hour, of an impa-
tient and noisy house, while most of the independent and
disinterested members of Scottish burghs, and parchment
land-owners, sat broiling on a gridiron before him.
Sir G. CLERK was then spokesman, and he certainly made
an impression on the house, by the impassioned manner in
which he exposed some anomalies and discrepances in the
arrangements, marriages, and divorces, of places and dis-
tricts, on which he was very severe.
Others of these Gentlemen then demanded the special
discussion of such vast interests, and moved an adjourn-
ment ; pleading the indecorum of disposing of them, and
their constituents at such an hoar. To this it was replied,
that the seven days' debate had comprehended the entire
plan; and after a few words from Lord ALTIIORP, and the
reading of some letters, indicating the enthusiastic appro-
bation of the Scottish people, the question that the Bill be
brought in was put, and carried.
A similar motion was then made in regard to IRELAND ;
and a claim for additional Representatives was made for
Irish Counties, but Mr. DAWBON and O'Cosrivoa Don—
describing the general satisfaction of Ireland with the mea-
sure proposed ; this bill was received too at half-past two.
Mr. PERCIVAL (son of the late Minister) spoke first in,
the debate. He renewed the attack on Col. Ev xs, and
broke out into a furious tirade against the London press—
commenting on various propositions maintained by it. He
lamented the disjunction of his party, which we were glad
to hear ; and concluded by stating thit he feared none but
GOD—not even the press before which the house crouched.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY illustrated the propriety of the Bill,
by a variety of statements connected with borough pa-
tronage, and the farcical inadequacy of constituents. He
praised the speech of Mr. O'CONNELL, and drew a
humourous caricature of that of Sir C. WETHERELL.
Mr. Goutauttli, very naturally, opposed the Bill, and'
vindicated the pension of £2,000 to Mr. Putctv 1., to

which Mr. HARVEY had alluded. He considered tho mea-
sure as revolutionary; but could not suppose Ministers in-
tended to abolish the House of Peers.

Mr. LENNARD applauded the bill, and the Ministers, for
bringing it in at such a time. Mr. K. DOUGLAS op-
posed it. •
Alderman WAITHWAN said, he forebore to speak harshly
of the Opposition, because the gentlemen had personal in-
terests at stake. He considered the bill as one calculated
to consolidate the interests of the country. The population
now was three times greater than at the Revolution, and
hence the necessity for a reformation of consequent abuses.
Mr. FITZGERALD and Mr. STEW ART spoke briefly in
opposition to the bill.

Mr. BA YNTUN described the present legislative bodies as
King, Lords, and its dependents. He approved of meeting
danger in the face.
Mr. COURTENA Y thought the King and House of Lords
could not stand, if the House of Commons only repre-
sented the people. If carried into law, the Bill would not
leave a vestige of the Constitution.
Lord STANLEY spoke at length, and with effect, in sup-
port of the Bill ; about which, he said, his constituents,
the great county of Lancashire, were unanimous. The old
enemies of reform were now its ardent supporters ; and old
and new reformers were in favour of the Bill.
Mr. K. Douo Lc. vindicated the Scotch Members from
the charge, that money-making was their only object.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE spoke with an energy which com-
manded universal admiration in favour of the Bill, and in re-
probation of the opposition of the members of the rotten
boroughs, to whom he alluded with the most impassioned
contempt ; stating, among other things, that they need not
lay the flattering unction to their Tory souls, that the country
would longer bear with them. lithe success of the measure
was endangered by their intrigues, he should advise the dis-
solution of the Parliament, and that the Crown should not
issue writs to the sixty boroughs—a measure which would be
' applauded by the country, and supported by the future
Parliament.

Mr. TENNANT approved of the bill; but as in the
confusion of the House, he was inaudible, yet, perse-
vering, there was a general cry of Question : and Lord
J. RUSSELL presented himself to wind up the debate.
A more impressive and judicious speech, than the noble
mover's reply, never, in our opinion, was made in
Parliament ; and it was received with cheers, which often
overpowered the voice of the orator. He answered nothing,
because he said there was no argument to reply to. The
Members for Rotten Boroughs seemed to consider them-
selves as the props of the Crown ; but the Crown could do
better without them. The speech itself was a condensation ;
and it would be vain to attempt to condense what had no
superfluity. We therefore refer to it in the report of the
debates.

We refer our readers to some impressive observations in
our first page, relative to a bill of Lord Wirsvoan's, now
in progress through the Lords, which, if it were to pass into
law, would add another coercive statute to our already illi-
beral code of Debtor and Creditor Law. Those laws require
thorough revision ; but on principles, the very opposite of
those which characterize this proposed new law. The ar-
ticle to which we refer has, however, done ample justice to
the interesting subject.