Star.
London, England, 1831-06-29 00:00:00

ITALY.
The most affecting details have already been
given in the STA R, of the condemnation and death
of the Italian Patriot MsNorri. We, yesterday,
had access, through private information, to the de-
tails of the charges against this patriot—the je-
suitical mode of accusing him—and the equally
jesuitical judgment, the cruel execution, and the
inspiring effect of similar arbitrary decisions. We
recommend, in particular, the perusal of the fol-
lowing literal translation of an Atutro-Italian
production :

CASE OF MENOTTI.
CONSIDERING, that the convicted is fully guilty of the
atrocious facts imputed to him, over and above his own
avowals, several times repeated in the course of the interroga.
tories, before the military commissions, as well as before the
ordinary tribunals; and also the avowals and declarations of
his accomplices :
CONSIDERING, that by law, and by these facts, there
appears in his trial the palpable proof of his guilt, in the
full extent of the crime imputed to him ;
CONSIDERING, that the matter produced in the de-
fence, has the intention of gaining over the suffrages of the
people, and consequently the extension of the crime for
puted to him : an attempt altogether illusory, and not ad-
missible—since the law forbids all subjects from provoking
disorders, and of plotting, tinder any pretest whatsoerer,
and declares guilty every subject who commits such acts ;
CONSIDERING, that besides these results from the trial,
and from the writings of the accused, the exception of whielt
he claims—and that his "ease" and "small book" wculd have
established a proof that he would have effected thronghont
Italy the destruction of monarchical government, raised ibs
standard of liberty, and instituted a government entirely re-
publican :
CONSIDERING, that inasmuch the administration of the
laws, as by the proof of the facts, this plea is insidious, and
not admissible—in fact, null and void •
,LCostsiDeftino all this, the military commission has caw
demned and DO condemn Clio AIENOTTI to the penalty Of
the infamous death of the gobbet !—to be executed upon on
of the bastions of the citadel ; sod to the confiscation of a 1,
his property.! !
DONE ; READ ; and PUBLISHED, the 9th Day of May
1831.—Signed by the COMMISSION'S', and by
FERRARI, Chancellor.
WE, FRANCIS, &C. &e —Having seen and examined
the sentence pronounced, by the Extraordinary Military
Commission, against Ciro blenotti, WE approrc of 181
and send it back to the President of the said Commission to
be executed ! I

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.
TIMES...—It is very certain that the clause In the Reform
Bill, requiring that the rent shall be paid not less frequently
than by the half.year, In order to give a tenant the elective
franchise in boroughs, does exist in the schedule of the bill
now published, and has occasioned very general surprise:
we presume that it was inserted In some degree to appease
the apprehensions of those who dreaded the admission of
too great a number of voters ; and next, probably, it might
be thought, that a rent payable quarterly would be liable to
admit, by chicane, weekly tenants also. The number of
leases and other agreements between landlord and te-
nant, for even valuable tenements, in which a quarterly
payment of rent is exacted, might not have been suspect.
eh ; for, though a legislator ought to know a pent deal,
he cannot be, or rather could not have been, a third party
present upon every contract between landlord and tenant.
The moat rational and easy way of getting rid of the
clause is, to say nothing about the periods of payment ;
hut, as in the case of votes for counties under the old law,
to require a year's occupancy before the tenant shall be
entitled toga vote. Tl!ere is an explanation also necessary
on the relation between this and another clause, the 26th.
In this, the 26th, it is said that commissioners shall an.l
Ilex contiguous districts to boroughs containing fewer
than three hundred houses rated at 101. annually; but
Otis must mean rated at 101. and also liable to the con.
dition of the other clause,—that of paying the rents by I
nothing less than hale-yearly payments ; and if this be what is !
meant, how few bor,ogh.houscs toe liable to halt:yearly
payments of rent only ? There is something in cLuse 16
of the schedule which we do not clearly understand. Copy..
holders, of 101. and upwards, are to have votes for counties ;
leaseholders, of 101. annual rent on leases of 60 years; and
leaseholders of 7 years, and 501. rent ; but what maths :he
following paragraph in the clause? " Provided always,
that such person so seized of holding shall be in the actual
possession of such lands or tenements, or in the receipt, for
his own use, of the rents and profits thereof front the person
actually occupying the same." This proviso would seem to
limit the whole clause, so far as affects leaseholders, to tile
tenants of corporate bodice holding beneficial leases upon
line and reserved rent, whose sub-lessees cannot vote, what-
ever be the value of their occupancy. Is this what is
! meant ?

POsT.—Whatever may be the prevalent ideas upon the
subject o; Reform, it is easy to foresee that the nation will
sOOO be unanimously of our opinion as to the honesty and
consistency of the Ministers, who, by means of that question
Alone, have hitherto been enabled to maintain themselves in
office, after proofs of incapacity, more than sufficient to dis-
credit and destroy ten sueessrive administrations. The Ml-
bisters, who adopted for the electioneering war-cry of them-
selves and their partisans, " The Bill, the whole Bill, and
nothing but the Bilr—the ministers, whose friends and sup-
pm ters its the House of Commons have to a man obtained
seats in the House ofCommons by means of a pledge to vote
fur ":the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill"_
the Ministers, who have said, and almost sworn, In endless
repettion, that they would stand or fall by that measure, and
never deviate I t the slightest degree from any of its leading
principles—now, at this moment, stand openly confessed
before the people of England in the character we have always
assigned to them. They have laid upon the table of the
House of Commons a Bill upon the subject of Reform,
essentially different from that to which they have solemnly
bound themselves to adhere—essentially inimical to the demo-
erotic principles, by proclaiming which they excited a popular
ferment, which gained them many an electioneering triumph,
calculated evidently and impudently for the single end of in.
creasing permanently in the House of Commons the Arista
crarical power oldie Whigs. The change to which we al.
lude is that vilich withholds the franchise in cities and bo.
roughs from those householders whose rent is payable more
frequently than once in every half year—a change which
does not of necessity t arrow the constituency, or improve the
materials of which it is to he composed, but which does of
necessity place the whole constituency of every city and bo-
rough completely in die power of the proprietors of houses.
HERA LD.—A writer in a Sunday Paper has the modest
assurance to address what he Is pleased to call " Half a
dozen words to the King," but which, in fact, consist of a
whole column of semiouising cant upon this notable text—
viz. the " extreme difficulty" which his Majesty must have
L giving the royal assent to the Reform Bill, "as respects
the Coronation Oath." And to what part of the Coronation
Oath do such of our readers, as have not seen this precious
farrago, (mauler that the writer alludes I To that in which
' the Sovereign undertakes " to preserve unto the Bishops
and Clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed
to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law
do appertain to them." It requires no ordinary stretch
of invention and of imagination, we should think, to dis-
cover either how religion in the abstract, or our church
establishment in particular, Is likely to be affected by the
measures now in progress. The sly segue, however, who
thus sees in the downfall of boroughmongerism the:ruin of
the church, is probably either one of those clerical mayors,
aldermen, or burgesses which, to the disgrace of our church
estadishment, are found to exist, or else one of those
many aspirants to church preferment—and that of the
highest rank—to whom the road of Parliamentary inte.
rest is to4tempting to be turned away from without a sigh.
lire apprehend, however, that the real friends of the
church establishment, whether lay or clerical, can have
nothing to fear, but much to hope, from the conse.
quanta of Parliamentary Reform. Nothing in the
whole of our public irstitutions (not excepting
even threanldeouse of Commons itself) calls more loudly for
reformation than the church—not in its principles and doc-
trines—not in its ability or design to answer the important
purposes of its Divine founder—but principally from the
mode in which those purposes are defeated, by the singularfact,
fact, that the drones of the establishment consume the honey,
while the active bees scarcely partake, in too many instances,
of enough to sustain existence; and which, with other
' abuses, it would not be at all difficult to trace to the
very same source which has now united so large a ma-
jority of the people in calling for Parliamentary Reform.
Fortunately the present heads of the Church (some of them
at least), unlike the silly writer we allude to, have the wis.
dons to see the necessity of Church reform ; the Archbishop
of Canterbury himself, the Lord John Russell of the Church,
having with his own hand brought in a Bill, or Bills, which
in all probability will have the effect of taking sway some of
those " rights and privileges" of abuse which the sapient
writer in question would have us believe are guarded and I
sanctified by his Majesty's Coronation Oath.

FRANCIS.
GAETANO GAMORA, Sec. of the Cabinet
Catajo, May 21, 1831.
Upon this extraordinary production, we have the
following just comment in the Courrier Francais:
" The sentence pronounced against the courageous
patriot Ciro Menotti, is an example of atrocious
cruelty—worthy only of the most barbarous ages,
and of a tyrant only such as the Duke of Mode-
na, who recklessly approved of it, and warranted
its execution by his signature ! The crime of Me-
notti was, that he set his face against despotism—
he desired to break the chains with which Italy was
fettered—he wished to give liberty to his country
—and when driven to the last strong hold, he de-
fended his humble habitation from the satellites of
a tyrant—and when his " case" and " small book"
were torn from him by force—out of the sanctuary
of domestic life—he was doomed by the same power
to die upon the gibbet !! ! But we have not come
to the climax of this atrocious affair. We know
well that the Don Miguel of Italy thirsted for
blood ; but the thing that amazes us, is, that In
should have invoked upon his own head, that ven-
geance which he could have administered elsewhere.
Menotti is not only here accused of conspiracy—
fulfilled and accomplished ; but he is likewise ac-
cused of projects of massacre and assassination,
which it never entered into his mind to com-
mit. Common plotters, armed with poignards,
would have laid their vile hands upon all
the ministers and faithful servants of the so-
vereign ; they would have made a carnage at
the moment of revolt, and probably struck down
a great number of innocent victims. Herein con-
sists the crime ascribed to Menotti by the Duke—
the Duke, who knew well that the Italian patriots
had well used their victory, with admirable gene-
sity—that not an individual of the partisans of the
ruling powers (only for an instant beaten), was con-
demned by the conquerors —that he himself—the
Duke—owed his life to the magnanimity of this
same C:ro Menotti!!! The Duke devoted Me-
notti to the executioner—and calumniated himself
in imprudently condemning him to death. Atro-
cious mockery of strength !—sullying at once,
through the wiles and power of a tyrant, the blood
of a patriot and the sword of crying justice ! This
Prince—this Duke—who could not combat the
Modonese insurrection—who fled before it—who,
conscious of the hatred which the people bore to-
words him—who pusillanimously sought foreign aid MEMORIAL FROM NEWTOWNBARRY.
to support his bloody and stupid government— The following important memorial has been pre-
who, having obtained that aid, returned, and erected sented by tl.o inhabitants of Newtownbarry to the
scaffolds to punish patriots, whose hands were Lord Lieutenant. We also subjoin the reply of
clear of all blood—the Chief of whom had granted Sir Williain Gossett, the Under Secretary :
him his life—the next moment steeped his hands TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE HOST NOBLE THE MAE-
in blood—in the blood of that generous patriot, QUIS OF ANGLESEY, LIVID LIEUTENANT OF IRE-
LAND.
whose name was irreproachable ! The Duke con- we, the undersigned, principal inhabitants of the town of
demus him upon that burlesque of justice—a Judi- New:ownbarry, county of Wexford, beg leave humbly to lay
vial investigation ! he makes it a crime before your Excellency a statement of deplorable facts, which
against Menotti, that he ex occurred in this town on Saturday, the Pith of June ; with
pressed himself to a view that your Exeellency may institute such an inveseiga.
the effect that he would prefer coming to his boo as 'western best calculated to ascertain the whole truth,
devoted end in any other way than by the and best satisfy the Ads of justice.
Gibbet ! No expression of horror can be se- Three heifers, theproperty of Patrick Doyle, of Tombeick,
in the pariah of Newtownbarry, having been impounded fur
lected sufficiently strong to brand the cow-
earczymn, tithe,°raw that they
might be age by
duct, either of a prince or of a man, who ail- , a rescue was apprehended by me magistrates of the
ministers such laws, in the name of justice. The town asd neighbourhood. Detachments of yeomanry,
body of Menotti wee suspended from the gibbet ;
amounting to about Ibo, together with 40 of the conambn.
iary force, were ordered Into the town on the previous day.
but hie name will shine brilliantly forth, amongst The Saturday on which they were to be sold happening to
`those patriots of illustrious memory and renown, be market day, probably the crowd HAS increased on account
who have been immolated to the glory of freeing of the expected sale.
pound into
,eaule,were, without any resistance, driven from the
their country ; while the name of the ignoble prince,
Ine
wee,. e ee
d otor
satiraternits
which we read at the foot of the preceding documentc pinto
itsuee se p
thenl claim,market-place.
tahcee.catt I
shall be execrated in that history of the present times fare any sale took place, and it Is absolutely certain thatythey
which cannot be passed over, without the most I were not driven away by any force or intimidation whatever.
severe scrutiny : and woe to him, in the present;
oTibe cattlsehhatviinng stetiyetda,inweje foalmlowedmbyisgtreatet numbers
march of intelligence, who misrepresents a fact ! people
ins that the cattleg.had left the market:palace, forila4eid)etremiv,
Honour—everlasting honour to the AGE !—wherein , sewinpanied by the police, half a mile on their way home,
it
the People who claim their liberty are so great— ,w :1 the intention of bringing them back, which he accord.l
the AGE in which Princes, who wish to wrest' ,417.eestcitsedbe* Inhethceatstembee trio= the pound,
tain whichi
Power from the People, has become so contempti- left the them, and 'cam! back rato3athnle
ice as a guard over
Me ; in which we have seen populations mowed , town, distant about a quarter of a mile, to fetch the yeo-
down with grape shot, by legitimate Kings —and rnan,rhy, that they might assist.
The
st
:wyereoernandirorywanedwglimceuebehinlodurtianwsn upTnheaer thleicpeofiurnel,
in which we have seen the people grant life
—show
clemency—and even generosity—towards the men ' visibly over the heads of the people, under the instruction of
stained with their own blood. Where is the ' their officer, Captain King. The yeomanry, immediately
honour—the patriotism of Princes—the clemency, afterwards, commenced a discharge, which lasted pethapa
five minutes. The people seemed to tote dispersed home-
or the generosity—nay even the LA , where blood diately after the firing began.
is spilt, or where starvation is prevailing I The number of persons actually dead is thirteen: or four-

IRELAND.