Star.
London, England, 1831-07-30 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS-RECEIVED THIS DAY.

Vnww*, JULY 18.—Since the news lately communicated,
which was said to have been brought by an express from
Jassy, we have received several letters from persons worthy
of credit in that city up to the 12th inst. by which the re-
port of the total ruin of that city is shown to be entirely
&he. The plague does not prevail there; not the slightest
mention is made of a fire; and even with respect to the
cholera, the latest accounts are more favourable. The dis-
order had rapidly abated for some days, scarcely 20 persons
had died in a day : in the country the disorder continua as
before.

From Pestb we have received the melancholy infor.
mation, that symptoms of cholera have appeared in the
populous capital of Hungary.
We again have, from a source that may be depended on,
that his. Majesty the Emperor is resolved, in no case to leave
his capital. We have received no mail from Belgrade for
this week past: it is supposed that it has been detained in
consequence of the measures adopted in Hungary against the
Cholera.

BERLIN, JULY la—Though reports of war are still in
circulation, they are refuted by the fact that his Majesty the
Kinrhas left Berlin, on his usual annual visit to the baths
at Toplin ; that his Royal Highness the Crown Prince,
and the Minister of War, are also absent ; and that a
Minister for Foreign Affairs is not yet appointed.
Gurzya, July B.—l had occasion to refer to the unau.
thentic accounts of the French newspapers respecting Greece.
They still continue in the same strain, which appears rational
enough wbenwe know that the President, Count Capo d' htrias
employs great pains to observe all emissaries coming from
France, and to prevent them doing mischief, which according
to the system of those gentlemen, is a plain proof that
he is in Ike pay of Russia. Accordingly their journals have
again news from Greece to the 23d of May, which say that
some provinces are in open rebellion, the President is en.
tirely despised, and nothing is spoken of but a plan to de-
pose him and pot another in his place, and, in fine, com-
plete anarchy prevails in the country. Now we have
letters from Napoli di Romania, of the 28th,t4ith, and
29th May, written by well-informed persons, which do not
any a word of the supposed troubles. They affirm in the
country that in the Government and Administration every
thing is advancing, that daily improvements are making in
agriculture and the public education, and that hopes are en.
tertained in the country that every thing will soon be placed
on a solid foundation.

VIZMIL, JILT l&—Four per Cents. ?detains:pea, 68i.
Bank Shares, 1004.—Allpeateine &Uwe', July 23.

Surawa, Jun 30—From a Commercial Letter.—You
may perhaps read in the German Papers that the plague has
broken out in Smyrna ; but I can give you entire
satisfaction on this point. A fever, very prevalent
among the Greeks, which is accompanied with many
characteristics of the plague even boils, but which is not
contagious from the tint occasion to this report, which even
here tilled us all with fear and terror fora whole week ; and
being encouraged by some person with a view to pe-
cuniary interests, was the more believed. Happily it was a
groundless alarm, foe in 11 days which have elapsed sines the

report only eleven persons have died, and those eel o rte,
immediately about the tick are at present all eal.
Besides dila, the Jew who is so celebrated for h,
ledge of the plague, affirms tharthe fever is of quite a 41,
ent nature.—Nurennierg Correspondent, July 21.

EVENING STA I?:

LONDON.

SATURDAY. JULY 30.

This day the Coronation Court of Clair., ...
sembled at the Council Chamber, Whitil.:,ll •.
tended by the following members, pawl. t,
Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, biz
the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Duke; c,
NORFOLK and RICHMOND, Earls GREY
ALBEMARLE, the Marquis Of LANDSDOWNE,
MELBOURNE, Lord HALFORD, Lord Duk:l;‘,,
Lord PL MNEETT, &e. &c. The Court mn,
again on Tuesday next.

The Protocol relative to the Belgian Fortres•:,
which we gave yesterdv, is as to the Bel3iat.
sufficiently obtrusive and impertinent; and palp,mr
treats that country as a mere Province of the Tiol,
Alliance ! But the Belgians view the ffrittc.
truly; and it will be their own questio❑ ,\!:.
ther they raze their own fortresses, or not,
man must take the consequences of
ing ou another man's land. We venture s.;
assert, that no government can exist a week i!!
Belgium, which, by foreign interference, eunser.t
to remove a single stone. It is not in the •
between LEOPOLD and the Belgic people.

At length we have advice' direct from Wr.rsa
to the 17th and 18th. It appears that while
body: of the Russians, 6y means supplied 1.
Prussia, were enabled to cross the Vistula, 11!:-
' DIOER to distract the Poles, advanced on the cthc:
side, within a few miles of Praga, and at or ne:.
MINSK, a severe contest took place on the 140,
between him and CHRAZWOWSLI, which ter-
minated in the total defeat of RUDIGER,
a loss of three thousand In killed and wounded,
above 1,000 prisoners, and 11 pieces of cannon.
The latter were brought into Warsaw on the I(.ith,
and there were rumours that RUDIGER had beer.
killed. Such a victory is very opportune, as it
relieves the Poles from anxiety on that side, and
leaves them at liberty to destroy the party which
has crossed the Vistula.

The Polish Landwehr, or Posse Comitatis, sra
assembling at Sochazew, and other points of
Bresc, Rana, and Leuczyca, left of the Vistd.,
while SCHRZ TN ECKI is pressing PASKEWITtC
on the right bank, and occupying all the Rut-
elan positions in Plock and Mazovia. In-
deed, one account alleges that PASKEWITSCI:
with 12,000 Russians, has fled to Thorn ; for the
co-operation of Prussia is no longer dissemble.
In truth, this new victory of the Poles raises tilt.:
cause immeasurably, and we may expect that is
will lead to others by SK RZ Y NECK!, whenever h
can encounter these pestiferous propagators of
cholera* whether on the right or left of the Vistula.

The fate of the brave and active Girton') i;
fully recorded. He was shot by an enraged officer
of his own staff, and his corps entrapped by Prus-
sia. It is stated that Cn Laeowsm is also in a
desperate position, and that A MINSKY, with some
fugitive corps, alone remains in Samogitia; a!1
which gives a fearful ascendancy to Totsroi%
army of reserve.

The Bank of Poland has put forth a spirited tip-
peal to the people of England, relative to a 1037:
but alas ; the people here are as poor ns the Poe,,
except a few capitalists who lend only on undoubted
security !

We are concerned that the present enlightened
CHANCELLOR should have judged it proper to en-
force against Mr. WELLESLEY the fiat of (phi
ELDON, which deprived a father, under some al-
leged circumstances, of the care of his own children,
and the children of the natural affection of this fa-
ther. Whatever might have been the supposed weight
of the circumstances which led to the decision at the
time, they were of a nature liable to change ; and
as a preliminary question ought now to be raised
las to this change of circumstances, it does not tend
to increase the public respect for a tribunal often
useful, but whose powers are frequently in the
teeth of our free Constitution. It is one
thing to protect orphans, and another to
interfere between parent and child, when both
deprecate the interference ; and it is also a different
thing to protect wards as to the precise objects of
guardianship, and another to assume that general
controul which is always vexatious, and often very
oppressive.

The line of demarcation never to be passed by a
Chancellor, should be, not to exert the coercive
powers of his court, except when the offence
charged is such as might be indicted at Common
Law. This would include all the wholesome
power of summary authority, which this or any
court ought to be allowed to possess. Then
as to this case, we doubt whether any Grand Jury
in England would find a criminal bill against Mr.
EW LLEBLEY for receiving his child, who sought
his protection, even though Lord ELDON had di-
I rated the separation.

The subject, however, very opportunely brings
the powers of this comparatively new jurisdiction
under the review and criticism of the nation.
Its prerogatives have encreased, are increasing,
and ought to be diminished ; and if this, as We
11 expect, should be the result of this commitment,
good will come out of evil. The powers of such a

z,u; t, as exercised, are palpably inconsistent with
Magna Charta, the laws and securities of
Eduard I. and the petition of right ; and there
lever was a time more favourable to an accurate
.nip just determination of its powers. We cannot
Intl in the laws of any age or country a crime
which can be committed " under amiable feelings,"
and a jurisdiction which recognises such crimes,
:earns to us to require to be corrected and curtailed.
Without meaning to insinuate any blame to the
:resent CHANCELLOR, we consider this Court
:,ad its powers as a general question, worthy of
:pecial notice, in a public sense, and with refe-
wee to the constitutional liberties of the country,
and the statutes and usages which protect person
311 J prcperty.

Last night, the Marquis of LONDONDERRY,
wbose diplomatic knowledge is most respectable,
;toed that he inferred, from the terms of the
communication made to France in July, relative
to the protocol in April, that a previous com-
munication had been made, and an answer
meived, which sought permission to publish
the fact , and he begged to be informed who-
.i:ez it was not so. Lord GREY replied,
that verbal communications had passed. It
et!d hence appear that the French Government
ma sought permission to make the use of the fact,
ticli it so exaggerated in the KING'S Speech.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY then moved
:he second reading of his bill, for the augmentation
of the incomes of small church livings. Its object
to extend the provisions of the Act of Chas. 11.
The CHANCELLOR commended. it, and stated that
there were from 800 to 1000 small livings, worth
not more than £6O per annum. The Bishop of
LuNDON, in support, stated that church property
would be found not to exceed a third of what it
had been represented.
[a the Comatoxs, after a long conversation, it
1;35 agreed to sit till six to-day on the Reform
]lill. There will be no sitting on Monday, owing
to the festival on opening London Bridge.
In the Committee, on the question being put on
GciLDFORD, Mr. DENISON moved for two mem-
b.?rs ; and after fifteen speeches, a division took
glace, 186 for his amendment, and 253 for onlyone
member.
litts-row t was then added to the list.
HONIION produced a long speech from Sir G.
V.l FIRES DER, but was added.
HUNTINODON, after a short debate, was reduced
3t placed in B.
I, VIBE found no supporters.

L tuNcEsToN was decided upon after speeches
from Sir JOHN MALCOLM and Sir H. HARDINOE.
LisKRARD followed, and LYME REGIS.
LYMINGTON after a short opposition from
Messrs. CROIZA and BURRARD.

MALDON produced a sharp debate, in which
Mr. DICK, Mr. LIENNARD, and Mr. WESTERN
rere followed by eight other speakers.
A long discussion then took place, relative to
:-.leeting to-morrow (this day), when '216 voted for
t, and 143 against it.

We are indebted to the activity of the Dublin
Morning Post this day, for a supplementary edi-
tion, giving the conclusion of the Mullingar
Mains, and the acquittal of all the prisoners on-
% ulved in the Castlepollard affair ! Our readers
Hill find an account of this extraordinary trial in
our last page. It would appear that nine of the Jury
were for the acquittal, and three on the other side.
" Thus it was (observes theMorningßegister) at the
inquest at Newtownbarry—one portion of the jury
entertained opinions exactly the opposite of the
remainder ; and if they had been allowed to de-
hoerate up to the present moment, there would be
:is little chance of an unanimous decision, u when
the coroner thought proper to dispense with their
smices."

This afternoon, the Marquis Of LON DON DER R T
av e a grand dejeuni a la fourchette, at his seat
near Fulham, to the KING and QuEzw, and a vast
Limber of the Nobility, and other persons of dis-
tEiction.

Sir W. F. Elliot, Bart. has intimated to the
Yreebolders of Roxburghshire, and those who
acquire the elective franchise under the pro-
\ isions of the Reform Bill, that it is his intention
ti take the earliest opportunity, after the Bill
;hall have passed into a law, again to stand for
the County, and to solicit the honour of their
ff: ages.
_ _

One of the most piquant and applicable speeches
hich have been delivered in the Committee on the
form bill, was spoken on Thursday ninht by Sir
H. Doyle, in answer to Mr. Cresset Pelham, who
-lid that the disfranchisement of the nomination
' roughs would be the ruin of the Constitution:
If," observed the gallant and Honourable
eart.—" We go on this way, from night
ti night, during this hot weather, some of us
:taking, and others of us listening to, speeches
which have been repeated over and over again, and
Almost without variation, during the course of the
i.reacnt Sessions, I am sure that it will terminate in
:be ruin of the constitution of us all."
FOUR PERSONS XILLIED IX BALLINROBB.•—•
e have seen a private letter, received by a respect-
al..;e merchant in this city, from a correspondent in
Ballinrobe, in the county of Mayo, announcing the
tr•elanclioly intelligence of three men and a woman
-Aing being shot near that town on Saturday last.
!.e v, titer states that the starving peasantry tried to
AEI by force 24 carts of meal from a party who were
%..4kiLeting it from Westport for the relief of the
.:istrtssed. An altercation ensued, in which three
"14ntrymen and a woman were shot, and a con-
siderable number wounded. Several were taken
I,74otiers and lodged in the gaol of Ballinrobe.—
the coroner was proceeding to hold an inquest on
the bodies of the deceased, when the writer was
cloclig his letter. Freeman's Journal.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

Our funds are looking up this morning, in the
face of the reported Prussian declaration against
the Poles, of which nothing official has as yet come
to light.

Consols which left off yesterday at 82{ i for the
account, opened at the same price ; and at present
they are 83, with a firm market.

Nothing doing 48 yet in the Foreign Market.