Star.
London, England, 1831-07-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

That the Duchess of Berri has appointed a Council or
Commission of Regency, composed of MM. Blocs', D'Haus-
sez. and Lle Monthel, is all a tissue of absurdity,without the
sG~host gromd of belief. What we can safely affirm is,
that it so Quixotic an expedition were on foot, no friend of
the Monarchy, either in the South or in the west, would
kin in the enterprise. Time is the wisest of all thine.
The Royalists must be content with the defensive, and
never think of undertaking the offensive. Tranquillity,
moderation, and wisdom, which a sincere love of country
ought to inspire, and their absence front the public 1116011.
blies, will tend to show France the dispositions of these per-
sons who dispute for power; and she will at last know them
by 'heir ac.s' after having been so long the dupe of their de-
clarations. The moment in which Francs shall know what
they are worth, will be the immediate forerunner of their
downfall.—l asetle de France.

About 200 placards had been posted up during the night
before last, from the Place de Greve, to the Faubourg St.
Antoine. They contained an appeal to the workmen.urging
them to acts of violence, and pointing out to their indigna-
tion the election of M. Slide, to the rank of Captain in the
National Guard—a man denounced in the placards as hay.
ing presided lately at a meeting of hatters, and addressing
the assembly to reduce the price of labour. A peace officer '
repaired to the Fauxbourg St. Antoine, and. with the aasist-
.:e of the workmen themselves, he tore down all those
ti:ar ards.—Jou rm., des Debra,.
The conquerors of the Hostile, residing in Paris, anxious
to colt memerate. in a becoming manner, the anniversary of
the 14th of July. have resolved to meet 011 Sunday next,
urder the presidency of' M. Decombis a retired officer,
who is decorated with the Orders of July 1789, and July
to devise on the meats of celebrating that event The
contha•ants of the great week of 1830 are invited to meet
on that day, at M. Goupyn Boulevard du Timple. No. Sri,
tot e;iberate on an address to Gen. Lafayette, and on the
measures to be taken in order to celebrate that great anni-
versary in a mance worthy of its object.—Rsvoluliom
There was yesteoley almost an entire suspension of the
be.mness of the Courts of Law, in consequence of the elec.
ti CC The Court of Carnation sad the Tribunal of Cor-
n-roma, Police were the only Cl,llllll that sat. The Assizes
were Twtt•tpitred, and the Royal C.s.un and the Tribunal de
Pr. ti tree Instance merely opened for the purpose of post-
polio g the trials —Ga ianafti's Messages.
'lit, Men:aria! des Pyrenees save:—The Spaniards eon-
t Mao their depredations upon the French herds and flocks on
the :Tonto is. It is sutra by a letter from that quarter that
(troy marauders carried away recently in the night ten sheep.
at st up in a barn in the distric. of Achiatoy. The National
Oa Ards inzuediateiy after received orders to repel similar
aggression&
We announce with pleasure that the brave Romorino, a
voi•.nte, r Frenchman, has not lost an arm, as the Russiana.
I•atl reported it in the German papers. A letter which he has
written to his wife, who resides at Strasburg, testifier to his
*Arty. Jogai nal du C4IRIIIeTCII.
114 r HAGUE, June S.— Nothing is yet certainly
lii wen s tat resprct co the answer of our Goveninittit
to the new proration of the Conferences at London.
:".1011.0 persons affirm that these proposals are not sp.
pow. d id on our side, sad that they have given occasion
ni a very energetic protest. These, however, are, at pre.

EVENING STAR.

I,o\ DOA.

SATURDAY, JULY 9.

Despatches were last night received at the
Foreign Office, from Brussels; but their contents
have not yet transpired.

We are anxious on TIIREZ subjects of Fo Etc
A rFA lus on which we expect some elucidation on
Monday.
1. The Vote of the Belgic Congress on the
18 Articles, and the dependant arrangement with
Prince LEOPOLD.

2. The state of the war in Lithuania, on which
we have had such contradictory statements from
Warsaw and Berlin.

3. The issue of the elections in Paris and France,
on which must depend the future policy of the
French government.
At Home the public have other objects of soli-
citude, less difficult to time, because their prin-
ciples are unsettled, or they are mingled with pas-
sions, and many prejudices.
_ _ _ _

1. The rote of the Lords on the Reform Bill.

2. The relief which is said to be proposed to the

labourers and the poor generally, seeing that Lord
VVtvcnttsee's measure is withdrawn.

3. The course that is to be pursued in regard to
the three recent slaughters, especially that at New-
townbarry, on which a mysterious silence prevails.
4. The final measures which are to be adopted
for the relief of the press from its heavy taxation,
and the operation of the Six Acts.
5. The rational adjustment of a system of
Debtor and Creditor I aw, the present system in
all its features defeating itself by its cruelty and
illiberality.
6. The restoration of our currency to a state
commensurate with ourtaxes, trade, and transac-
tions, so as to restore to productive and inter-
changeable industry their fair profits.
7. The repeal of Sturges Bourne's oppressive
Poor Bill, and the extension of a system of Poor
Rates to Ireland.

8. The throwing open of all close Corporations.
These are the points on which public anxiety is 11
directed to the proceeding's of this Parliament; and
on which the talents of Members, the industry of
Government, and the public spirit of the collec!ive
wisdom are expected to be forthwith displayed.

In the House or Cost stows, yesterday, new
writs were issued for Milborne Port, Cashel, Oak-
hampton, Winchelsea, and Roscommon.
Mr. uNT presented a petition for 19,400 cf
the working operatives at and near Manchester
in favour of Universal Suffrage, Ballot, &c.
Mr. 11031 e considered all of them as
injurious to the Reform Question, while be
characterized these petitioners by stating that
in Stockport, only 28. 6d. could be raised to pay
the Delegates. Various Members then protested
against the assumptions of Mr. HUNT ; and Sir
E. B. SUG DEN ascribed such petitions, and their
support of any Reform, to the gross ignorance of
the people.
The Pembrokeshire Petition against the return
of Sir JOHN Ow EN, is to be taken into considera-
tion on the 4th of August.
A Debate arose on the suspension of the writ for
Liverpool, in which Mr. DEN N I SON, Mr. Ew A RT,
Mr. H. GURNEY, Lord A LTHORP, Mr. LIT-
TLETON, Lord HOWICK, and Lord J. RUSSELL,
supported the issuing of the writ ; but Sir G.
CLE IIK moved an adjournment of the question till
Monday, which was supported by Mr. BEN ETT,
Sir C. WETIIERELL, Marquis of CHAN DOS, &C.
and on a division the motion of Sir G. CLERK
was carried by 119 to 99 !

In explanation Mr. STANLEY stated, in regard
to the obnoxious Irish Arms' bill, that he abandoned
the transportation clause.
Mr. flumE complained that a wise measure of
the late Ministry, relative to the fares, &c. of
hackney co .ches and cabriolets, had been deserted
by the present Ministers, and an injurious monopoly
allowed to exist; to which Lord ALTIIORP replied
that a measure to throw the trade open would be
submitted in a few days.
Mr. SADLER, Mr. WA RID RION, and Alderman
WEN A BLES, concurred in reprehending the neglect
of the present Government.

It appeared that the Irish Grand Jury System,
and the Customs Regulations, so long pending,
would at length be brought forward : also, that
the plan of taxing steam navigation was abandoned.
Lord MILTON gave notice of two very impor-
tant changes R hich he meant to propose in the
Reform Bill—one, not to give the County Fran-
chise to Leaseholders, and another to give two
Members to the twenty-six places in Schedule D,
to which but one was at present assigned.

We have not ceased to lament that the first bill was
allowed to be altered, in regard to leaseholders from
twenty-one years to seven years ; and now in con-
sequence, leaseholders are in danger of being ex-
cluded altogether. Twenty-one years favours the
public, and seven years the aristocratic land-
owners.

In a Committee of Supply, various large sums
were voted ; but on a proposition to grant f 958 to
certain Professors at Oxford and Cambridge, Mr.
H cstc objected, and said the wealthy pupils
ought to pay their own Professors. But Mr. Rick:,
Mr. PEEL, and Lord MILTON, supported it. Mr.
HUNT tried to speak against it, but a general
coughing interrupted him, which he said was al-
ways brought on by the mention of the poor.—
Mr. ROBINSON, Lord MILTON, &c. thought it
I disorderly fir any Member to insinuate that they
were not all friends to the poor. Mr. HUNT tried
to explain, but was interrupted by severe asth-
matic paroxysms, and at length he declared as he
was not to be heard, he would merely say No—
and divide the House.

Mr. WA lIBU ItTON thought the vote ought not
to pass, because it appeared that the means of the
Universities were sufficient, for they voted large
sums to Bible Societies, to statues of PITT and
others. The House then divided on the motion of

Mr. HUNT, and there appeared 203 for the grant,
and only 15 against it, chiefly county members.
The claim of £8,565 to the Milbank prison was
opposed by Mr. Hume as useless, but voted ;1
£11,269 was voted to the Board of Works; and
it was announced that a National Gallery is to be
built; but Mr HUME proposed one of the palaces,
which now, he said, were mere lodging houses for
(pensioners.

The recent prosecution of Mr. Coaaarr must
be regarded as a false move of the Administration.
As the Jury could not agree, and the demand of
agreement rested with the prosecutors, it would

have betrayed great acrimony in them, if they
had persisted in requiring a verdict, since
pertinacity would have displeased even the
Whig party in the jury. There was, therefore, no
alternative, but for the Law-officers of the Crown
to submit to a non-suit, or the withdrawing of a
juror. What a fine exemplification of the value of
the principle of unanimity ; and under this prac-
tice, how satisfactorily a verdict becomes a truth,
by being the result of general assent. There is no
doubt that Mr. CORBETT displayedigreat acumen as a
casuist ; while it is considered that the ATTORNEY
GENERAL, as such, acted with candour; and that,
the CHANCELLOR gave his evidence with the frank-
ness due to a defendant in a suit of the Crown. We
confess that hitherto we have been among throe who
think that the present administration has higher
pretensions than such warfare, and that it is
very unnecessary for it to seek support
from criminal prosecutions. In this parti-
cular case, it was, no doubt, stimulated by
the narrow-minded craft of the knavish hypocrites
who trumped up that false statement about Goon-
MAN ; and if it be ineligible for the ATTORN EY-
GEN ER RA L to prosecute them as deceivers of the
Government, they ought to be considered
as black sheep by both Government and
country. There can be no doubt that Mr.
Comm considered it useful that the la-
bourers should force the attention of power to-
wards their wretched condition ; and though the
eloquence of that class is rough action, and not
finished periods, yet he preferred even the interme-
diate evils, but without promoting them, to the
silent misery to which the labourers seemed other-
wise to be doomed.

It is deeply to be regretted that the whole case
was not wisely met when the Kentish and Sussex
Grand Juries made their representations, early in
1830; and it appears to us, therefore, that those
are the real culprits who then treated such honest
warnings with neglect or contempt. Some will
ask what even has yet been done—for hanging,
transporting, and imprisoning, have not remedied,
or removed the evils? Why do Ministers leave
the questions still open ?

A Cabinet Council is expected to be held at the
Foreign Office, in Downing-street, to-morrow.

The grand dinner which was to hare been given
to Don PEDRO, at the Foreign-Office, this after-
noon, has been put off till Monday, in consequence
of the dinner given in the City to Lord Jouu
RUSSELL this afternoon, on the occasion of pre-
senting his Lordship with the freedom of the City
of London.

In honour of Don PEDRO'S visit to this country,
a grand review of the household troops will take
place in the early part of next week, in Hyde
Park ; preparatory to which, the ground has al-
ready been taken up this morning.

ROY AL EXC H A NOE, ONE O'CLOCK.
There are no arrivals of any description this
morning.
Consols which left off at 83 last evening,
opened this morning at 82i 4, and so continue
up to the present moment, scarcely a bargain hav-
ing been effected.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Bombay papers to the 13th of February have
been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house : the information they contain is en-
tirely of a local description.
Exchange upon London, at six months' sight,
1 10 ; Freights, about 51. per ton.
Up to the present moment no expresses have
arrived. Ihe Funds remain precisely in the same
state of inactivity as in the early part of the morn-
ing : Consols 83, alternately buyers and sellers.
THREE O'CLOCK.

STOCK EXCHANCIE.BIOk Stock, --. Three per Cent
8 Three; Cr Ct. C•inbols, 813 ex div. Three
and a half per cent. tins, —. Three and a Half per
Cent. Red. 893 1. Three and a Half per Cent. New,
981 ex die. Four per Cent. 1826, Long Annuities,
Jan. 1360, 16 11-16 1. Annuities, Jan. 1860, 181.
India Stock, 200 199; ditto Bonds, 4 prem. £lOOO Ex-
chequer Bills, 15 16; £5OO ditto, —; £lOO and £9OO
ditto. —.113k for Acct, 2051. Coii-ols for Acct, 831 3.
FOUR OTLOCK.--Ccoosola 831 •

The Princess Augusta took an airing in a car-
riage yesterday afternoon for the first time shin her recent
indisposition. The Duke of Cumberland visited her Royal
Highness yesterday.
M UTA ITY.--k little year ago, and George
IV. ruled in England and Hanover—Charles X. in
France—Pius VIII. in Rome—Charles Felix in
Sardinia— Fiends Janvier in Naples—Anthony in
Saxony—Pedro in Brazil—Charles in Brunswick
—William in the Netherlands—Nicolas was undis-
puted Autocrat of Poland. Where are they now ?
In the grave, in exile, or shorn of their dominions.
Mr. Archibald Prentice, of Manchester, has
been indicted by Captain John Grimshaw, for a
light squib on him, as one of the seventeen anti-
reformers who signed the counter-petition, at Mr.
Towler's shop. The following is an extract from
the indictment :—" John Grimshaw, commonly
called Captain Grimabaw (thereby then and there
meaning the aforesaid John Grimshaw) principally
remarkable for giving bawdy toasts, and for a coun-
tenance which seems to blush at his own (meaning
the aforesaid John Grimshaw's) lewdness." To
the great injury of the said John Grimshaw, and
against the peace of our said Lord the King, his
Crown and dignity.
As we mentioned yesterday, their Majesties,
accompanied by the Landgravine of Hesse Horn-
berg, the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and attended
by the Marchioness of Westmeath, Earl Howe, Sir
Andrew Barnard, Mademoiselle Stein, Lady Sid-
ney, and others of their suite, left town in three
open carriages and four, at two o'clock in the after-
men, to honour with their presence the entertain-
meats given by Lord and Lady Farnborough, at
their residence on Bromley-hill. The Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and
Sir James Reynett, left town in the afternoon, to
be present at the fete. Prince Leopold, the reign-
ing Duke of Saxe Coburg, and the Prince of Lei-
ningen, attended by Sir John Conroy, also arrived
and joined the party, after inspecting the artillery
establishment at Woolwich.