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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON. .

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4.

This day despatches were received at the Colonial Office
from the Honourable lieutenant-General Sir C. CoLvILLE,
Governor of the Mauritius; and from lieutenant-General
the Honourable Sir G. L. COLE, the Governor of the
Cape of Good Hope, dated the 27th January.

At a late hour this afternoon, we received by express, the
Paris Papers of Monday; by which we are gratified to find
that our best hopes for the Poles are realized. General
DWERN ECK I has totally muted RUDIG ER, in the environs
of Tarezyn— the Russians losing a great number of men in
killed, wounded and prisoners, with six pieces of cannon.

It will be seen from several paragraphs we have ex-
tracted from the French papers, both yesterday and to-day,
that the treachery of the Papal Government is consigning
the poor Italian patriots to the dungeons of the several petty
Italian tyrants, preparatory to the sanguinary exhibition of
of their execution. We observe it is said, that the
French Ambassador bad interposed in their favour ;

but we conceive that the pre►ention of such revolting
scenes of revenge—scenes so certain to perpetuate sing_

par ones on the popular ekle—might be worthy even of a

protocol from the Combined Powers. The execution of the
Italian patriots will not ensure the peace of the despots of
Italy.

The arrangements are now everywhere completed for
battle. The champions are either in the field, or are
buckling on their armour. The returns so far are
either of rotten boroughs, or undisputed places,
though there has been some well fought battles ; but
the great contests are to come—the large open towns
and counties ; and with the importance Of the stake the
public anxiety will increase.
On the third day there are thirty-three returns of sixty-five
members, of whom twenty-three voted for the bill, and there
are also eleven new members for the bill—making thirty •
four: on the other side, there are nineteen old opponents,
and eight new members, making twenty-seven, and four are
doubtful. Hence thus far, the King and People have gained
about thirty votes in all. But it is to be observed, that the
third day's return includes others of those sinks of cor- i
1
ruption, the Rotten Boroughs, soonest becanse the
easiest concluded. This day, for example, we have Alde-
burgh, for which the Marquis of Hertford nominates the
hopes of the great Duke, and Mr. Croker, Heytesbury,
Oakampton, Westbury, Woodstock, and half a dozen other
such caricatures of constituency and representation, all
making an expiring effort to save their unhallowed privileges.
On the other hand, the spirited little town of Banbury
has done its duty.

Bury St. Edmunds has put in one good man.
Oxford, Worcester, Hythe, Poole, and Yarmouth, have
put on such a front as secured their honest representatives.
Huntingdon alone stands disgraced among County
town ; but, alas, the close corporations, are at once public
as well as local nuisances, and it was error not to take away
their abused and ill conceived charters before the election.

The city of Durham, we regret to be informed, has neu-
tralized its energies, by returning two members of opposite
sentiments. We regret this the more, because we are assured
by a correspondent, that a reformer would have succeeded
bad any one offered. Is not this sad neglect in tho reform
bead-quarters in London ?
For the present, Tamwortb was yielded to Sir R. PEEL
in charity ; but hereafter, we give notice, that there is not
a more sensible body of inhabitants in the Kingdom, than
in that improving town ; and no place where liberal can-
didates would be more certain of success.

What a sorry figure the big wigs at Cambridge exhibit to
an intelligent people I Yet how desirable an exposure of
their fitness to be public instructors: What a proof of the
necessity of the Universities in London, at Bristol, and
Newcastle ! The world were mystified by questions about
systems of learning and science, but the world understand
this question in plain English—and from this time the close
Corporations of subservient wisdom, and of the Pedantry
of the sixteenth century may date their overthrow. We
care much less for the impotency of these two members,
than for the value of this manifestation. If PALMERSTON
and Cav zuutsu had been returned with unanimity, we
should have been disgraced for another century, by these
close corporations of scholastic absurdities. But the elec-
tion is not over, and the honour of Cambridge may yet be
redeemed. If not, it will be a public advantage, and de-
cide thousands as to the necessity of reforms in the ma-
chinery of our Universities, and in that respect permanent
good will flow from a temporary evil.
We turn from a subject which unites disgust and hope, to
a more cheering one in the North, where Mr. BELL, the
NORTHUMBERLAND Candidate, has been obliged to yield
in utter despair, to the unanimity of the people. We were
told that his Grace was to spend £200,000 to carry this
election ; and really, for the good of the country, we are
sorry Mr. BELL did not afford him the opportunity. We
should then have had the money, and also two good Mem-
bers.

In Lancashire, Mr. HEYWOOD, the liberal bunker of
Manchester, is brought forward in opposition to Mr. PAT-
TEN, and the voice of the county is unequivocally in his
favour.

We calculate also on the success of PELHAM, in Lin-
colnshire; of DENNISON, in Nottinghamshire; of Hos-
KIN s, in Herefordshire; of RUSSELL, in Devonshire; of
VEaDow, in Derbyshire ; of Moarrost, in Gloucestershire ;
of WILLIAMS, in Durham; of WILMOT, in Warwickshire;
of RYDER, in Kent; of BLAMIRE, in Cumberland ; of LE-
MON, Cornwall; of WELLESLEY, Essex; of WILBRAHAM,
in Cheshire ; of PAGET and PHILLirs, in Leicestershire ;
of SPENCER,iII Worcestershire; of RAMSDEN and STRICK-
LAN D,Yorkshire; of THROCEMORTON, Berke; of LANGTON,
in Somerset; of BRISCOE in Surrey; of PAYNE in Bed-
fordshire; of MACDONALD and LE?EVRE in Hampshire;
of WETLAND and HARCOURT in Oxfordshire ; and, above
all, of 1: REN YELL in Buckinghamshire; and of CALCRAYT
in Dorset
We thus calculate, because in some the tory members
have actually retreated ; and in all, the feelings against them
are so decided, that few are likely to vote for them, but
slaves and dependents—and we cannot forget the national
anthem—that " BRITONS NEVER WILL BE SLAVES !"
We shall continue our unremitting attention, and we
hope to meet with the zealous concurrence of the public,
and of all who are personally concerned.

Some of the antagonists of Parliamentary Reform, seem
to think they advance a most potent argument against it,
when they remind the public, that it will be the precursor of
great changes throughout the entire organization of society
in this land. They sagely say—as if announcing a disco-
very—" the people will not stop here, they will demand
more." Now, if they mean to assert with Mr. HUNT, and the
anti-reform writers, who have adopted so eagerly his authority,
that the influential majority of the generation now existing
in this nation, will not be satisfied with the present reform,
they speak falsely. That Universal Suffrage may, by some
future generation, be demanded as powerfully as the present
intermediate measure is now, cannot be doubted ; and it
likewise cannot be doubted, that provided nothing should
occur, to clause retrogression in moral and intellectual im-
provement, that a time will come—and not very distant,

perhaps—when it shall take place; but every generation
should legislate for itself; and as to its successors, satisfy
itself, by cautiously avoiding to place obstacles in the way
of their future progress. We are convinced, that Reform,

—or call it even alteration—to the extent which is
now proposed, is all that is required or demanded, as
requisite by the majority of adults now existing, who possess
adequate information to judge of the question, and adequate
independence of sentiment to entertain a volition regarding
its solution. So far, therefore, do we say, unhesitatingly,
that the antagonists to the present measure, falsify in as-
serting that it will not satisfy the people.
If these assertions, however, mean that the people will
look for something farther, as the fruit of their present la-
bours, most certainly they are right. The machinery of
Government is but the means of good to the community ;
and that machinery is repaired or improved, for the object of
the good which is to result. To adopt the favourite meta-
phor of the Anti-Reformists, we maintain it has worked ill ;
with this! reform it will work better; and if this reform be
prevented, it will not work at all; but break with inevitable
violence into its primary atoms. Anti-reform and revolu-
tion are synonymous.

CITY, OWR O'CLOCK.

We have no arrivals of foreign mails as yet, and the ship
letters which have come to hand are of an old date ; but we
are informed that an Express has arrived from Paris, bring-
ing the French 3 per cents. higher, 60f. 25c. in consequence
of which our funds have improved.
Console, which left off-yesterday 79-i for the Account,
opened at the same price, and have got up to 84 I.
French Scrip has also improved. In the Foreign Market
little doing as yet.
Accounts from Algiers, to the 16th April, state that all
was tranquil there; but at Belida, and at El Coleach, some
agitation prevails, probably caused by the movement of
troops. The new general has sent an expedition of from
4,000 to 5,000 men ou Chiffa, to the N.E. of the moun-
tains of Soumata.

General Berthezene has sent a steamer to inform the
French government that a Spanish vessel, under the tri-1
coloured flag, having on board 151 condemned Spaniards,
had entered Oran. These unfortunate beings were crammed
in a vessel of 50 tons ; they could scarcely breathe ; 54 of
them were condemned for political sentiments; amongst them
was a Frenchman arrested in 1829.
Ltv ERPOOL, May 2.—The supply of new British plan-
tation sugar is very limited ; yet such is the dull state of the
trade, that prices are not at all improved. The estimates for
the week are 2000 hhds. and less this afternoon. The de-
mand for low lump continues, and 64 to 64-6 is readily
obtained, but the quantity in hand in the refined market, is
very small.

CITY. HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK.

Extract of a letter from Toulon, dated April
have this moment a report that two ships of the line and two
frigates have received orders by the telegraph to sail imme-
diately for Lisbon, to demand prompt satisfaction of Don
Miguel.
The French 3 per cent. Consols, 60 to 50. We do not
find any fresh news from Poland in the above papers.
;Consols are not so good as in the early part of the morn-
ing, when they were at 794 for Account ;at present they
are 79i, and buyers at 79A for money.
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Monday at three o'clock, Louis Philippe received the Di-
plomatic corps, and returned an answer to their address to
the followingpurport :—" I receive with lively satisfaction,
the sentiments of your regard, for myself and family, in the
name of the diplomatic corps of which you are the organ ;
and I am persuaded, as well as you, of the grand truth, that
peace is the foundation of public prosperity, and the solid
basis of the true happiness of nations. Since my coming
to the throne, I hare neglected nothing to maintain it ;
and the assurance which you express to me, in the name of
the Sovereigns you represent, is a new pledge of the con-
tinuation of the friendship and good understanding which
subsists between us ; and I will always endeavour to pre-
serve it for the interest of France, and that of Earope."

BRITISH

lIILII SOCIETY.

A meeting of this Institution took place this day at Exeter-
ball, the doors of which were besieged so early as between 9
and 10 o'clock, when we suppose there must have been pre-
sent almost 3,000 persons. An apology was made for the ab-
sence of the venerable President, Lord Tynmoutb, on which
the chair was taken by Lord Bexley, who read a letter be
had received from his lordship, regretting his inability to
attend. A long report was then read by the Secretary, giving
an account of the exertions of the society during last year, on
the circulation of the Scriptures over the world, when we
heard 41,000 was sent to France and the Prussian armies,
supplied, and receipts and expenditure of the society. We
find that since the foundation of the institution, the funds
it has received amount to upwards of one million sterling.
During last year there was an increase of the circulation
of the Scriptures of thirty-six thousand. When we left
the room, at half-past two, a long and violent discussion
was going on, in consequence of an amendment being sug-
gested by Captain Gordon, " that Socinians be excluded
from the Society, on the ground that the British and Foreign
Bible Society were a denomination of Christians in the ortho-
dox sense." The Reverend Rowland Hill, Doctors Daltry,
Bennett and others addressed the meeting; which is sup-
posed wiU not break up till a late hour.