Star.
London, England, 1831-09-17 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION

HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK.

We are assured, on credible authority, that the Pieni.
potenthries sent by Leopold to Berlin and Vienna, have
not been received. At Vienna, the Emperor signified that
be could not be received, except under a Protocol signed
by the King of Holland, and at Berlin a private reception
was declined:.
The last Protocol refuses to entertain the question ahou
the Belgic Fortresses until all the French Troops bare
quitted Belgium.

Among the ardent friends of Parliamentary reform, our
colonists stand foremost ; for they consider t►at measure
as essential, not only to their prosperity, but to the coml.
nuance of their allegiance.

Of the six Morning Papers, only the Times speaks of the
alleged surrender of Warsaw. Among our contemporary
evening papers,

The Courier, as usual, backs its faith by " pretended"
°Midst dispatches, which we assert is not the fact—the
Foreign Mee has no facial advice. on the subject, and
for this we have full authority. The assertion in the Tim,.
is believed, but credulity and evidence are two things,—
The Globs concurs with us, that there are no official ad.
vlcep; but credits the news ; and he Sun, like ourstive.,
withholds Its credence.

The information is not believed at the Foreign Post
Once, for information from Berlin later than the 10th,
could not have arrived. A liamburgh steamer left that
city yesterday, Friday, and this is the earliest 'ravel which
can afford us information from Berlin on or before the 10 b,
and is not expected till to-morrow evening.
It is said that the example of Marylebone Parish, in
resisting Select Vestry Assessments, will be followed next
week by several other Parishes in London and Middlesex.

At the close of the.Btock Esehange this afternoon, the 3
per Cents. were 82 I I ; Russian Stock, 21 i ; and Es.
chequer Bills, 8 10.

Sookk Segueshrolions, law night : Paul Bennett, ller-
chant Dundee; John Howden, Goldsmith, Edinburgh ;
W. Wylie, manufacturer, Paisley ; John Henderson, ►ilk
mercer, Edinburgh.

REQUISITION TO THE LO:1D MAYOR.
We, the undersigned Liverymen of London, highly ap.
predating the very able and distinguished manner In which
your Lordship has discharged the important duties of the
Chief Magistrate of this great City, and, above all, the sue-
quivocil support and essential service which your Lordship
has rendered:to the great cause of Parliamentary Reform in
the present year, are induced to wish that your Lordship
will permit us to propose, on klicbaelnuan day next, your
Lordship's re-appointment to the t ivic Chair; as we are
persuaded your Lordship's eminent ability, integrity,
energy, and persererence peculfarly fit you to fulfil, for ano-
ther year, the high office which your Lordship now so WIG
fully and adequately dischargt s, and which will. we hope,
effectually promote the peace and tranquillity of the Me-
tropolis, during such an eventful period.
MIDDLESEX ItEQVIVrt-r—ibl To elm SHERIFFS.
" We, the undersigned Freeholders of the County of
Nliddlesex, request you will call a public meeting of the
Freeholders of the said County. to consider of petitioning
and to petition the Lords in Parliament assembled. that
they will be pleased to pass the bill now before the Legis-
lature for a Reform of the House of Commons ; and that
' with as little delay as their Lordships may find possible."
DORSET Collrir--'Y ELECTION.
The freeholders and inhabitant, of Lyme' Regis, it ap-
pears, has lost none of its interest .m the reform bill. Mr.
Calerlft's death was known there on Monday night, and on
Tuesday a meeting of the freeholders. very numerously at.
tended. was held at the Lion lon, and a resolution entered
into to support no candidate for the county but a reformer.
The prompt example of this town should be imitated by the
whole country.
On Wednesday there was a meeting at Blandford of a de.
potation of the respective committees from Poole, Shee-
han., Blandford, Wareham. Wicaborne, Shaftesbury, and
Bridport—Malachi Fisher, Esq. in the chair; at which it
was "resolved, that Mr. Ponsonby having been called upon
to offer himself as a candidate, we unanimously approve of
him as our representative, and declare our determination to
give him oar moat zealous support."

Sir Wm. Purves Hume Campbell, of March-
mont, Bart. has preaeated a petition to his Majesty,
claiming the barony of Po!myth.
The wheat is universally acknowledged by millers
to be the heaviest, and the finest sample which has
come to market for many years.
Mr. Kean was unable to perform last night. He
had barn announced for Hamlet, at the Hay-
matket ; but a certificate from his physician, Dr.
Sigmond, pronounced him •' perfec'ly incapable
of fulfilling his engagement, on account of a severe
and alarming illness."
The Commissioners of Inquiry into the state,
abuses, &c. of the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius,
and Ceylon, have been returned from those colonies
for upwards of four months.
A requisition to the High Sheriff of Kent for a
county meeting, to petition the House of Lords to
pass the reform bill, is in the course of signature.
All motions for leave of absence, except for ill-
ness or other unavoidable causes, will be resisted by
those who regularly attend the house—the strict
attendance of all the friends to the measure being
of the greatest importance in furthering the sue-
tem of the bill in the Upper House.
The names of the most respectable merchants
and bankers in the City of London have been
subscribed to a requisition for a general meeting of
that body, in order to petition the Lords to pass the
Reform Bill. Amongst the names are those of
Mr. John Smith and Mr. Grote.

With all deference to the motives which actuate
the members of Societies for the encouragement at Temper-
ante, it mum be admitted that for Cholera, mid the prevail-
ing disorders' of the season, Puat Ba•NDIC is frequently
procriti.ll by she Faculty ; but the question is.—.Wbere is
'• Pure Brandy" to be procured ? Chemists of the first
eminence have testified BiTTS' PATENT BRANDT to
be tree from acidity, and decidedly mote wholesome than
real Cognac; but thole whn imagine that this exquisite
Spirit is vended by every dealer, who has the effluntery
to ue Mr. Beus' name, are liable to be sadly disappointed.
For instance, In Drury-lane, where ea many placards are ex-
hibited by powder., would It be believed, that the patentee
supplies but we establishment ? Such, however, is the Get
as roved by affidavit before the Lord Mayor : and the
public, while on their guard against imposition. may rest
Inured, upon the same authority, that not only the Patent
Brandy, but every commodity in the Wine and Spirit Trade,
sold by 31r. Baste, of No. 100, Drury•lsne, is perfectly
free from deleterious adulteration.

Last Wednesday night, a meeting of the work-
ing dames took place at the Rotunda, lilackfriars. Mr.
Lucking was called to the Chair. Mr. Hetherington gave
a detailed account of his journey through the Minh, and
was very warmly received. air. Cleave directed atten.
tion of the meeting to the ease of a young man, 28 years of
age, who had been co :opined to prison a few days before
by Mr. Walker, of Lambeth-street Volice ORize, under
the Vagrant Act, and who was refused relief by the parish
olicen, and was only in prison a few days whets he died
from the Aka of the starvation he experienced before his
committal. lie then read the report of the inquest, and the
recital drew teeth the execrations of the meeting. Mr. Fair.
bather said he was an Irish labourer, and it grieved him to
sees Riaglidi mechanics walking the streets selling matches.
HS Milikted that it was in a great part owing to the influx
aria &Ibsen's; but, as a remedy foe she working classes
sfl. ggegmes, he would rtemninend a repeal of the le•
shialve widen, and he expected in a fortaight a lave • got
wad electing of the Irish on that subject, and be hoped the
Basile\ stocking closes would attend.