Star.
London, England, 1831-07-02 00:00:00

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THE FOUR POLISH ARMIES.

SK 11ZN ECKI'II CENTRAL ARM Y.On the 14th
instant, the Commander-in-chief moved from his
head-quarters in Praga, in the direction of Minsk
and Siennica, nearly the same positions he occu-
pied before his late manoeuvres. A consequence
of this advance induced the Russians to withdraw
from Siedlec, which was evacuated on the 17th.
He will probably return within a day or two to
Praga, as the main force of the Russians, occupy-
ing the right hank of the Narew,have shewn a de-
monstration to cross that river Serock, and it is
not impossible it may appear again, and give ano-
ther battle in the neighbourhood of Praga, which
is now strongly fortified.
GrItLGUD's SAMOG MAN ARMY.—General

Sacken, after bis retreat from Ostrolenka and
Lomza, waited the arrival of Gen. Gielgud in a
very strong position, surrounded by several lakes,
beyond Raygrodi ; lien. Gielgud found himself in
an awkward position, but the villagers came to his
assistance, and drew the water from the lakes, to
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facilitate the passage of the Polish troops. He
then attacked the corps of Sacken, took from him
eight pieces of artillery, made 2,000 prisoners,

among whom were 40 officers ; and availing him-
self of his advantages, pursued his march on the
great road to Grodno. Ihe corps of Gen. Gielgud,
when first detached from the Polish army, consisted
of about 12,000 men, and 18 pieces of cannon ;
it now consists of 40,000 men, and 34 pieces of
artillery, viz. eight pieces taken from Sacken, and
eight pieces brought to him by the patriots.—
The corps under the command of Gen. Gielgud,
includes many officers highly distinguished. Col.
Zalinski formed the rear-guard, and followed the
General ; two days after his departure, he assem-
bled the remainder of the patriots, the young
men capable of bearing arms, provisions, &c. and
crossed to the right bank of the Niemen. The
Russians have sent detachments from the main
army towards Lithuania.
About 20,000 men, tolerably well armed and
clothed, stood in the neighbourhood of Rosienna.
It is difficult to describe the sufferings experienced
by the patriots in this quarter recently ; those
who were unfortunate enough to be taken had their
tongues cut out, and were afterwards thrown into
the flames. Children were massacred in presence
of their fathers to make them betray the places
where their brothers sought refuge. The Cojsacs,
the Kirgis, and the Czerkas have shown themselves
the most cruel. In spite of all disadvantages, these
brave patriots, nearly without arms, have already
destroyed upwards of 15,000 Russians. There
are persons of credibility now in Warsaw, who
were witnesses of some of these atrocities, incre-
dible in the present age. They state that in the
small village of Samogitia, arms, legs, heads,
and other members of human bodies, were copiously
strewed, presenting a sight offensive to humanity.
CHLAEOWSKI'S LITHUANIAN ARMY.—Gen.
Chlapowski, after having joined the Lithuanians,
has fought two battles, the first near Beilsk, the
second near Prozanna, in which it is said he has
dispersed two Russian columns, under the com-
mand of General. Shrowiag and Faze, and taken
18 pieces of cannon, by which account he has de-
tached a corps of patriots in the direction of
Slonim, and moved himself in a northerly direction,
between Wolkowyski and Grodno; he beat the
Russians, took two pieces of cannon, and made
40 prisoners. He passed the Niemen on the Ist,
and arrived at Lida on the sth. He was there
joined by 2,000 young men of the first families in
Lithuania, and many detachments of patriots,
in both infantry and cavalry.
CHRANOSKIO, SOUTHERN ARMY. --la the
neighbourhood of Zytomierz, in Volhynia, the
patriots formed themselves in a body, under the
command of Captain Rozycki, and met near the
town of Cudero, 560 recruits going to join the
ussian army, whom they immediately disbanded
and sent home. They moved on to Jarrow, and
from thence crossed the river Both in a position in-
tersected with forests; they were attacked near the
village of Molocki by two detachments of' infantry,
of whom they killed thirty, with the commanding
officers, and took ninety, with one officer prisoners ;
their loss was five men and two horses wounded.
On the 30th of May they succeeded in out-flanking
the enemy, and took a transport of oats and bis-
cuits going to the Russian army, consisting of 10.5
waggons, drawn by 240 horses; they took further
—forty nine waggons laden with powder, grape-
shot, &c. On the 2d of June they were attacked
near the small town of Berezno, by two squadrons
of the cavalry, of whom they killed twelve, and
made forty prisoners. After this affair, the whole
detachment crossed the Bug near Dorochusko.
General Cbrzanowski being apprised of their
approach, sent out two battalions of infantry
to facilitate their passage through the cossacks
and cavalry of Rudiger, which was encampe
in the neighbourhood of Zamosc ; but this assist-
ance was no longer necessary, fur in the night
they surprised two squadrons of the cavalry jagers
of Sicwerts, and a regiment of cossacks near
Uchanic ; they killed in this attack five officers,
among whom was a colonel of the cossacks of the
Don, and 64 soldiers, and took upwards of 60 pri-
soners, among them Lieut.-col. Bognadow, of the
jagos, and brought into the fortress of Zamoec,
char force consisting of three squadrons and 40
men on foot. The Commander-in-chief has con-
ferred the rank of major and commander on Capt.
Rozycki, as also a knight's cross, in testimony of
his satisfaction ; and further, has decorated such of
his soldiers and subalterns with a si:ver cross, who
most distinguished themselves in a march so well
worthy of imitation. Gen. Kreutz, who has long
occupied Lublin, was reported to have retreated to
Brze.c. This is not correct; it is now known he
is gone to join the main army on the Narew.

!DOH GALION/MI.B ascssintaxa, CECIIVED THIS DAY.
Ls National enters into a detailed history of the aristo-
aacy in England, " the only country in the world in which
there is an aristocracy /*jure t in all others it is de facia."
It observes, that the English constitution has been
formed by the lapse of time and by experience. The ele-
ments of which it is composed have never been deliberated
on. It has never, for instance, been a question debated in
England whether two chambers are necessary ; and, if so,
whether one should be hereditary ? The institutions of
England have grown out of events ; and those best versed
in history cannot fix with precision the period at which
these institutions, emanating insensibly from passing
events, assumed the form in which they now appear. It
then passes in review the struggles of the different powers
fur supremacy under Henry VIII. Elisabeth. James I.
Charles I. Cromwell, Charles 11. and James 11. down to
the final settlement of the present constitution under Wil-
liam 111. In all these suuggles it remarks, that although
sometimes one, sometimes another of the three powers ob-
tained the preponderance, the existence of the three dig.
dna branches of the legislature appears always to have
been a principle inherent In and congenial to the genius o
the nation; and though the reform measure will inevitably
lead, some time or other, to the destruction of the Grist°.
I cracy, the warmest supporters of the bill have now an idea
that such will be the result, and would probably, if con-
vinced of it, shrink from the measure they ate advocating.
In France, however, it is very different; the English Con-
situation is not adapted to the sentiments or habits of the
people ; an aristocracy finds no sympathy in the breasts of
the nation, and forms no natural part of its institutions;

this was felt by the best and wisest of those who preceded
and took pan in the earlier events of the Best Revolution.
Even Minima, certainly the most enlightened member of
the Constituent Assembly, the only one whose sagacity per-
ceived the very moment at which the Revoludo* was losing
itself in the unknown paths of vague theories, and running
the risk of perishing by its own hands; lifirabeso, who sin-
cerely wished to consolidate the royalty of Louis XVI, saw
nothing around him which could take a place In the Con-
stitution analogous to that of the British Peerage. Himself
a member of the aristocracy, be renounced his order, and
neves imagined that the time would come when that aristo•

Cloy wonld be regretted, still less that it woald be re-es-
tdblished.

Journaf du Commerce says, that the great difference
between Parliamentary and Representative Government is,
that the ore places the supreme authority in the hands of the
Chambers, while the other sees only in the Chambers the
organs and instruments of a higher sovereignty, which is
essentially inherent in the nation. The former system is
modelled on the old British Constitution, and was Imported
into France by Louis XVIII in 1814 ; the latter was
founded in France by the Revolution of July, and will ins.
vitably triumph in England by means of the new Nll of
Reform.

Ls COrattrE a FRANCAIS says, that there are three
parties in the English Parliament ; the Reformers, who rally
round Lords Altborp and Grey, theabsolute Anti. Reformers,
and the Itloderre Reformers, headed by Sir Robert Peel.—
The policy of the latter it represents as ingenious, but hope-
less. " The success of the Bill," it Pays, "is certain in the
Commons ; in the Lords, the Spiritual Peers, and the infiu-
erne of the English Clergy, may occasion its rejection, but
the result is easily to be foreseen ; if the House of Lords
ishes to destroy itself, it has only to reject the Bill ; it
will not be the first power whose follies have amounted to
suicide."

The Journal de 1 'Aube gives an animated account of the
reception at Troyes of a pasty cf twenty-one Parisians who
were wounded in the days of July, and passed through that
town on their way to the Baths, for the benefit of their health.
They were met at the entrance of the town by numerous de-
tachments, and were conducted to an hotel in a car crowned
with oak-leaves and everlasting', through an immense crowd.
After dinner, the National Guards, with their Colonel, pre-
sented them with wine of the country—namely, Champaign,
In which loyal and patriotic toasts were drunk. The repast
being finished, the invalids were conveyed out of the town
with the same ceremony.

A letter from Port-au-Prince, dated April 22, announces
that a revolution is expected, the consequences of which
rn?y be terrible. Some important persons are desirous that
all foreigners should be expelled from the island, and that
Haytians alone should act as consignees. Others of sounder
judgment oppose this proposition. Animosity is at its
height, and duels are frequent. M. Benjamin Frumeau, a
young and talented Haytian, has fallen in a meeting with
the son of M. Inginac, Secretary of State.
M. Laffitte has addressed a letter to the electors of Havre,
who have signified their intention of putting him in nomi.
nation as their Deputy, declaring his opinion against an
hereditary peerage.

A new air.gun, invented by M. Perrault of Rouen, has
within the last few days been examined and tried in the pre-
sence of Lieut.-General Pelet, Storekeeper General, and other
Officers of the artillery. It was proved that at a short dis-
tance its effect is infinitely more destructive than cannon, and
that three barrels may be mounted on one carriage, each
firing in a different direction. It is discharged by means of
a wheel, that may be turned by a child, and will send 500
bullets in a minute. The body of compressed air is suf-
ficient to discharge 5000 without its being renewed. The
whole apparatus for three barrels may be transported by one
horse. Batteries of these guns may be formed to any extent.
Their effect upon masses of troops would be equal to the ac-
tion of a scythe cutting the body in two, as a plank is di-
vided by a saw.

The following incident occurred on Friday night, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock, in the garden of the Tui-
leries young man was distributing an appeal to the
people of France in favour of the Poles, bearing the sig-
nature " Thomson," when be was rudely accosted by one
of the keepers, who snatched some of the papers out of his
hands. A crowd formed around them, but the young man,
who by his accent appeared to be an Englishman, got
away and fetched another, who expressed himself with
greater fluency, and who remonstrated with the keeper.--
During the altercation, Mr. Thomson scattered a great
number of the papers in the air, crying " La Pologne 1 "
" La Pologne !" They were gathered up by the people
with great eagerness, and the young men were loudly
cheered. In a short time the crowd dispersed, and the
company continued to promenade quietly till the usual
hour of closing the garden.
The death of Marshal Dlebltsch was known at Warsaw
only on the 13th inst. in the evening, and it is believed
that this event accelerated the movement of the main Po.
lish army. The officer who arrived at head-quarters on a
special mission from the Emperor to examine the state of
the army, and inform him of the operations and plans of
the Marshal, was Count Orloff'. On the Bth the Marshal
ordered a grand review of the Imperial Guards, and on the
same evening he was to deliver his dispatches for the Em-
peror to Count Orls,ff, who was to set out on the 10th.
The latter had just returned home from the review, when
one of his Aides-de-Camp suddenly entered, to announce
to hi:n that the Marshal had been attacked by violent pains,
and was at the point of death. Gen. Orloff immediately
went to the Marshal. An attempt had been made to bleed
him, but without iffect. lie made an effort to speak to
('suet Orloff, and uttered these words, " I am dying."...
The General endi.avoured to calm him. The Marshal then
raised himself up, and said, " I am dying, tell the Emperor
• • . ." These were his last words ; his
voice failed him, and in a few hours he was no more. Count
()Huff immediately set out on his return to Russia, and
violated the Prussian quarantine. The King expressed
much displeasure at it, and even refused tp receive him on
his passage through Berlin. Count Orloff, to justify him.
self, gave out that he wished to avoid the Russian quarantine
at Nana. He was to embark at Lubeck.—The Ilamburyls
Correspondent states that the Marshal, in his dying hour,
expressed a wish that his remains should be interred in his
native country, Silesia.
PARIS. Joss 28.—We are, in truth, weary of contra-
dicting false assertions and absurd news, which some people
are not weary of propagating and listening to. News, which
seems authentic, has been received that Dr. Francia has at
length set M. Dompland st liberty. As soon as our Govern-
ment received this news, orders were immediately given
to all his Majesty's ships, on board which M. Bompland
might take his passage, to receive him with all the atten-
tion to which he is on many accounts so justly entitled."
Laczarez, JUNE 22.—The note transmitted by the Ex.
traordinary Envoy of Prussia to the Federal Directory, in
newer to the notification of the declaration of neutrality,
ys, " that the Envoy has received the order of the King,
is Sovereign, to reply, that Prussia has always felt the
.armest int in the prosperity of Switzerland, with which
it Majeoty is particularly connected by the Principality of
Neufchatel, the interest of which he has never separated
root that of all Switzerland ; that Prussia has with pleasure
encurnd with its allies in establishing the neutrality of
sitzerland, which, being guaranteed by all the Powers,
placed on solid ft.undations, but this does not hinder it from
he duty of Switzerland to place itself in a condition
o make its neutrality respected by its military erganiza•
:on, and to respect it itself by invariably following a cor-
set and impartial line of conduct. Prussia, therefore has
PProved all that Switzerland has done during the last ten
Pears to create within itself a respectable force, and also the
late measures of the Diet, dictated by wise precautions. Yet
Prussia has been surprised that Switzlerland, at a moment
hen the general peace was nut disturbed, and when none of
he Powers, guarantees of the neutrality of Switzerland,
I tententd its independence and neutrality even remo:ely,
he Diet should have thought it necessary to assemble a
,nsiderable army, at a great expense, and even
a make a part of it occupy military positions.—" Swit-
trland," says the note, in conclusion, " cannot too
ften repeat, that it may be easy with respect to its future
"TiLles. Prussia, always one of the first to secure its in.
"N.". as it will never cease sincerely to wish that the st-
oat Cantons, always ambitious of the regard of Europe,
.iti.olitiating their institution., faithful to the ancient
of their forefathers, may retain the character, the
r‘rciples, and the manners, which have gained them the
...lei of all Governments, and the good will of all nations.
" larlaruhe, June 1.
(Signed) " Baron D'OTTERSTEDT." ,

LONDON.
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SATURDAY. JULY 2.

This day despatches were received at the Colo-
nial Office, from Lieut.-General Sir L. CoLs-ILIA,
Governor of the Mauritius, dated the 15th of
March.

A Cabinet Council is expected to meet at the
Foreign Office,To-morrow, in Downing-street; but
the certainty of this meeting will depend in a
great measure on the nature of the despatches
which are expected from Belgium in the interim.

The gentlemen connected with the Treasury are
all busy at present making up the Quarterly Ac-
counts of the Revenue, which are to be laid be-
fore the public on Tuesday next. It is gratifying
in the meantime to learn, that there is every like-
lihood of the Revenue being, as the KING said in
his speech, considerably increased, notwithstanding
an abatement of taxes.

Ou the 30th of June, the Belgians consider
their armistice as at an end ; and the excitement
which Diplomacy has for seven months kept alive,
can scarcely fail to manifest itself in a popular
manner. On Monday we shall be better informed.
We hope the King of Holland will gracefully give
up the left bank of the Scheldt ; and we trust he
is not encouraged in his obstinacy by any antiquated
English notions on that subject. The shutting of
that river has been a mighty question of ancient
Diplomatists, both to Holland and England ; but
this world is now, we hope, too wise to go to war
to counteract nature.

The 9th of July, too, was the day fixed on,
for a general rising through Poland. And then
France ! We have not
forgotten, how we and all Europe were abused by
an article in the Journal des Debais, and which
we could not then believe was A MERE ELEC-
TIONEERING TRICE!

Certain exclusive articles in the STAR yes-
terday, are pregnant with materials for the future.
We allude to the very eloquent commentaries in
La Revolution, on the Belgic and Italian ques-
tions, and to the able military expose, in the
Journal du Commerce, of the campaign in Po-
land. We regard the first as the true mirror of
the mind of France ; and the latter, as the pro-
duction of some French officer who knows the
localities. In the first, we discern the disgust of
the French nation at the obsequious diplomacy
of their new King, and the rooted determination
of France to render the Rhine its northern boun-
dary. It suits the editorial advocate to ascribe the
choice of LEOPOLD to the political ascendancy of
England, thereby to play on the passions of France ;
and though he is wrong in his fact, yet we discover
that the highway to popularity in France is to abuse
the people, who, by neutralizing Gam/car, were
enabled to repulse their favourite chief, and place
the imbecile Bourbons on the throne. Belgium,
and the Rhenish frontier, are the prizes held out
to the ambition of all Frenchmen; and the stimu-
lants to action are Russian aggressions in Poland,
and Austrian in Italy. The French expounder of
the Polish campaign is, in the main, correct in his
views; but he speculates falsely in sending
Sic Tazaecat to Lublin, because that Palatinate
is always accessible from the left bank of the
Vistula. He is right in conceiving that the Poles
will disturb the Russians on the Narew, so that
we may daily expect events in that quarter; and
he infers correctly, whom he states that the fate
of Poland will be decided on the Dwina, rather
than on the Vistula.

Lord WINCIIILSEA'S bill for the relief of
labourers is before P..rliament, and it bespeaks the
genuine spirit of justice and benevolence, but in
subgerviency to a bad system. The only true
remedy for the major part of our social evils
would be to double the number of farms. The
present number gives an average of 170 acres to
a farm, and an average of 8.5 would yield general
comfort and independance. Assessments on land-
lord and tenant ought to make it unprofitable to
hold above three or four hundred acres. Below fifty
acres there ought to be no assessment. However, on
the present parish-law serf-principle, Lord
'AEA's is better than the no-plan of Ministers.
It is monstrous that there should be a bounty to those
who give no employment, or at such wages that
the support must be derived from common assess-
ments on the liberal and illiberal. The circum-
stances warrant, therefore, a special labour-rate,
with returr.4 according to employment given and
wages paid. It is a serf system—but, we repeat,

better than nothing ; and even if this bad been done
twelve months ago, there would have been no rioting
or burning ; and flesh and blood would not have
offended the law, and subjected itself to
arrogant charges of libel, as in the case of Con-
SETT and others. Another feature of his Lord-
ship's Bill cannot be too much commended—the
extended power to parishes of renting land to as-
sign in lots to the poor ; we have, however, in our
rambling, heard so little of the 20 acres' plan, that
we wish returns were made of all parishes, who
have adopted even that limited power. Such plans
require a public travelling visitor to render them
efficient. We think, in fine, that Lord WIN-
CH ILS EA cannot be too highly commended
for his devotion to this subject ; but we ob-
ject to all legislation and to all law which
applies to effects, and not to causes. The cause of
all public misery and dicontent at this time is, first'„
the destruction of small farms and their mansions
of modest comfort, by which the occupiers and their
families have been driven into towns, or into rustic
pauperism ; and second, the withdrawing the paper
currency, without, in the same act, withdrawing
paper taxes to pay the interest of the paper debt ;
and we regard all schemes which attempt to recon-
cile such circumstances with the interests of so-
ciety, either as vain or abortive, or as adding to the
mischief by adding to the inequality of pressure or
oppression.

In the House of Lo had last night the
first effect of the visit of the learned Its at !donna
Roy. Lord LANSDOWNE presented a petition
brought by him from India, to rebut another
Hindoo petition in favour of Suttees, or Widow
Burnings. His petition states that the practice is
not only not directed by their Scriptures, but that
their Shastras and Vedas direct the course of life
of Widows. In fine, rational Hindooe are gratified
by Lord BENTINCK'S prohibition of the practice,
and describe it as being sanctioned by enthusiasts,
of which so many bring equal disgrace on Chris-
tianity itself.

In the House of Commons, Mr. HUNT presented
a petition from Stockport which was rejected, on
account of the coarseness of its language, and he
had another to present from Leeds, which on warn-
ing he forebore to present.
Alderman Woon moved for returns under the
Insolvent Debtors' Bill, and as we hope, with some
view to put an end to so cruel and useless a system.
An Oxford University Petition was presented
against the Reform Bill. It is, of course, to be
considered as a close Corporation measure, and we
lament that nothing is done to throw all such
bodies open. Lord MORPETII ascribed it to their
not having mixed enough with the world.

Sundry ether Petitions, and one got up in Berk-
shire, were presented against the Reform Bill, by
Mr. C. DUNDAS and others.

Mr. O'Cown ELL claimed for Ireland the right
to be represented in its ratio of population and
property, and the restoration of 40s. freeholders.
He also presented petitions against the Union, &c.
&c. and complained that the Government yeomanry
had announced processions on the party festival of
July 12.

Mr. Stilet appealed, with his usual eloquence,
to Government on this subject, and also on its
torpid conduct relative to the tragedy at Newtown..
harry. Mr. G a ATTAN followed, with great force, on
the same side ; but Mr. LE►ROY asserted that the
wealth and intelligence of Ireland were adverse to
the Reform Bill, and that the authorities at
Newtowubarry were misrepresented. The CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCII EQU ER preferred to wait the
issue of the inquest. This brought up Mr. HUNT,
who appealed with great energy to the House
about MERTHYR, TY DV IL, and the OLDHAM
INQUEST, but was not allowed to be heard by the
asthmatic party.
On a motion for a Committee on the Customs'
Act, Sir H. HARDING E renewed the discussions
about the authors of the Republican, the Poor
Man's Guardian, cnd the Prompter, and he
challenged Mr. HUME to prove that they really
belonged to the anti-Reform party. Mr. HUME
justified himself by Mr. Loan' Ett's MS. received
by him from the printer. He said--
It happened that this very morning he had re-
ceived a very curious letter from Dlr. Lorimer, who seemed
to anticipate that the subj ct would this night be mention:d.
It was addressed to • Citizen flume, M.P. 7, Bryanstoo.
square, Respected Fellow Citizen.'

"The writer went on to say, that perceiving by the Morn-
ing laroniee, that in the assembly of which Mr. Hume was
a Member, the Republican had been noticed by him as ema-
nating from the enemy's camp (meaning the miserable
Anti-Reform Opposition), the writer took the liberty of
rectifying this absurd error into which Mr. Hume had
fallen, as the author of The Republican had no connection
of a political nature with any of the Unions, with the de-
spotic A nti.Refunn Tories, nor with the hypocritical double.
dealing Whip. (Cheers and laughter from all parts of the
house.) The writer of the letter proceeded to say that he
could not imagine on what authority Mr. Hume had made
his statement, as he (fir. Lorimer) was the supervisor of
The Republican, and its ostensible and rerponvible Editor.
The communication concluded with a request that Mr. Hume
would send hack the manuscripts of which he had possessed
himself, arid which had been removed from Citizen Hether-
ington's office without his consents it was subscribed—
" Your respectful fellow-citizen, J. S. A Lorimer,"

After reading this communication, he (Mr.
Ht:Ntv) would add, that the suspicion he had en-
tertained that the writer of The Republican
belonged to the enemy's camp was confirmed.
Sir 11. HA RDINGE thought this explanation
important; and then Sir R. PEEL entered into an
elaborate explanation, that he was an utter stranger
to HETHERINGTON, LORIMER, CARLILE, &C.
and he repelled the logic of those who charged, on

the contrary party, the violences of their own.--
Mr. FERGUSON also spoke, and Mr. GORDON
essayed, but was not heard.
Lord ALTIIORP then moved that the duties on
elates and coals, carried coastwise, should be re-
moved since March 31, and that those exported to
colonies should be 2s. in British, and 6a. Bd. in
Foreign vessels, which, after a long conversation
about free trade, &c. was agreed to. He then
moved for increased duties on Barilla and natural
Alkali, and ss. 10d. per cwt. on all Cotton Wool,
but only 4d. when from British possessions, which
were passed. This was followed by his motion to
repeal the duty on candles from January let
next. Mr. Hum e and Mr. PAGET propesed also
to repeal the soap duty, and levy a duty on Russian
tallow; and several, as Mr. ROBINSON and Mr.
MABERLSY, urged a property tax in lieu of all
these petty taxes on the consumption of the poor.
Mr. HUNT said that the removal of the soap tax
would prevent the cholera morbus.

A variety of miscellaneous grants were then
voted, according to annual routine, on several of
which Mr. Hume commented with his usual acu-
men; and Mr. HUNT enquired Kith force why
twelve palaces were kept up to lodge paupers of a
higher class. To raise taxes for their support,
3000 summonses must be issued for the assessed
taxes. The King wanted but one or two palaces,
and the others ought to be got rid of. On his
soon after demanding, whether it was true that
Lord GREY had provided for his family to the
amount of £68,000 per annum ?—a great sensa-
tion arose among the members and Lord
ALTIIORP, with emphasis, stated that no man
would be less selfish than Lord GREY, who had
through life sacrificed his private to the public
interests ; and that the report about £68,000 was
an absurdity. Lord Howica thanked Lord
ALEIIORP, and expressed his utter contempt of
Mr. HUNT.

After midnight Mr. STAN LET brought in a very
coercive bill for the registery and marking of arms
in Ireland, and providing that persons having un-
registered arms should be guilty of a misdemeanour.
Mr. (Mow Eta. protested that the introduction of
so frightful a measure at that hour of the night
ought not to be insisted on, and Mr. WYSE stated
that, he should resist it. The discusssion was there-
fore adjourned.

The LORD ADVOCATE then brought in the Scotch
Reform Bill, which, like the first, was read at one
in the morning.

We continue to give the evidence before the
Inquest at NewTOWNBARRT, where very different
attention seems to be paid to this massacre to that
which was bestowed on that at Myrther Tydvil,
where Lord ALTHORP presumed, as matter of
course, there had been an Inquest before the
burial of the slain. We are told in the House that
no observations ought to be made pending legal
proceedings; but there are none pending at
Myrther Tydvil, and yet there is no address for
information, nor any Committee of Inquiry, yet
sitting. We insinuate no blame, and wish not to
be so understood ; but as such slaughters are sew
to our history,they merit satisfactory explanations,
lest they should be considered as matters of ordi-
nary police, and repeated on less urgent occasions.
It is most creditable to the Administration that no
Royal Thanks have been sent in either case, as
was done with too much haste in the similar affair
at Manchester. At one place the parties have
however met, and thanked one another; but this
does not include public opinion, nor a solemnity
of inquiry worthy of the solemnity of such cases.
All who read the interesting traits of feeling
displayed by his present MAJESTY in Dr.
BEATTIE'S interesting narrative of the Royal
Journeys on the Rhine, must be sensible how
deeply the Royal mind would be afflicted by these
sad scenes in such rapid succession ; and as this
is not a LIVERPOOL Administration, either some
Parliamentary declaration, or some new Law, ought,
if possible, to prevent the repetition of such acci-
dents, calamities, or whatever proper name they
bear.

All our advices from the country to-day, indi-
dicate that we did not call public attention in vain
to the clan e so treacherously or ignorantly intro-
', timed into the Reform Bill, and still part and parcel
of it on the table of the House of Commons. We
are sorry that such a circumstance should for a
moment have shaded the glory of the authors of
the Bill; and that the knave or fool who inserted
such a clause, should have afforded such a handle
for unmeasured exultation to the anti-Reformers.
However it happened, it proves that the Reformers
must net sleep till they hare achieved the victory
so essential to our liberties and welfare, and till
the Bill is enrolled in our Statute-book.

ROYAL KXCILiNGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 82 II 8•i for
the Account, opened at the same price this morn-
ing; at present nothing is d. ing.
In the Foreign Market Brazil Stock has im-
proved.

TWO O'CLOCK.

The account received at Lloyd's the other day of
a revolution at Pernambuco now turns out to be
void of truth: the letters by the vessel arrived at
Dover, after being detained four days, were de-
livered this morning. They are dated 9th of May,
and did not mention any thing on the subject.
THREE O'CLOCK.
_

We do not hear of any arrivals from Ostend to
the present hour, nor have we any political news.
This dearth of information has caused a stagnation
in our funds, and Consols have been during the
whole of the morning at 82j 83 for the Account,
with scarce a bargain doing.
FOUR O'CLOCR.—Consols 82 i