Star.
London, England, 1831-04-01 00:00:00

SPJRIT OP THR JOURNALS.

Tunis. —ln looking over the debates in both houses of parliament,
on the question of reform, we have been compelled most reluctantly to
entertain the opinion—not, perhaps, quite respectful to certain persons,
however conscientious and involuntary on our parts--that the enemies
of the measure have actually lost their wits. The Duke of Wellington
—we say it with regret: and mortification—the Duke of Wel-
lington, laments the meditated subversion of the Rotten
Boroughs, because it will disable en arbitrary Minister from
domineering, so completely as be might wish to do, over
the representatives of the people. What a view fur a British
statesman to confess that he has taken of the free constitution of his
country ! what an acknowledgment of the imperious necessity for this
bill, and of its inestimable value to us, the British ration ! But
Lord Grey has been assaulted by some desperadoes of the oligarchy,
for saying that the Constitution of England is founded on " re-
presentation, and not on nomination. • On the contrary, alledge
these myrmidons, the old Kings of England used to nomi-
nate the boroughs which they would authorise to send up members
to Parliament—(did they nominate the members?) and as an argument
for Englishmen of the 19th century, they send us back to the end of
the 14th. This will not do. We rest our claims on the great event of
the 17th century, and on the whole spirit and usage of the 18th, cond.
nued to this hour. We tell the British Polignacs, that the throne, not
the Parliament, is founded on nostination,—on nomination by the peo-
ple of England. The house of Brunswick has no other title.
Posr.—That England will be essentially a Republic from the mo-
ment the Reform Bill shall have received the Royal Assent, no man
who is not so far entangled in forms u entirely to overlook the substance
of things can for a moment doubt. England will, from that moment,
be subject to a Republican Government of the worst and most pernicious
kind—to a Republican Government, from which the influence of pro-
perty, of talents, and of character, will be nearly excluded--to a Repub-
lican oligarchy, in which the delegates of shopkeepers and small traders
will possess the supreme and uncontrollable power.
Hiaann—lt has been stated that " there are 25 livings in the Isle
of Ely, one of which is of the value of 6,0001. per annum, two of
2,4001. each, four between 1,500 L and 2,0001. four between 1,01101.
and 1,5001. two of 1,0001. two of 8001. one of 5001. and nine under
500. and in the whole but two resident Ineumbents." The same
authority states, a near relative of the Bishop of the diocese es
possessing no less than six pieces of preferment, amounting in value
to five thousand four hundred pounds; five of them demanding
constant residence. Now, when any allusion is made to these
or similar abuses, which unhappily are allowed to exist. an
outcry is generally raised by the possessors and expectant, of these die-
graceful pluralities, that it is done by the enemies of the Church, with
a view of bringing it and religion into contempt. To such persons Lord
Brougham's admirable allusion to the charitable conscientiousness
of Judas Iscariot Is the best answer. Such persons are no more
friends to the Church or to religion than Judas was to the poor.
They are not the true shepherds, but mercenary hirelings, whose
voices the sheep know not. The time is happily gone by for
such delusion as this to have any weight, and people must be blind in-
deed if they imagine that, when the spirit of Reform is afloat, such
monstrous abuses as these can pass unredressed. Would it not then be
wiser in those who have it in their power to check such abuses
rather than cherish and increase them—and to ask their own conscience,
if they have any. whether they are not themselves inflicting more
fatal wounds on the church than any which its bitterest foes can be
the cause of? Reform generally Is too long in coming, to assume
always so moderate a character, when it arrives, as it would have done
had its opponents yielded sooner. The Church has, in this point of
view, much more to fear from within than from without ; and, as the
keys of its safety are still in the hands of those most interested in its
preservation, they must be insane Indeed if they do not protect it
while they can.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
sitcal 0011 CORIZSPONDENT.

FALMOUTH. MARCH 30.—Arrived last night (Wind Ram), the
Genoese brig Christopher Columbo, Coster, from Genoa, in 38 days, for
Southampton; his Majesty's packet Rinaldo, Lieut. Hall, from Halifax
—left March 6th; his Majesty's packet Zephyr, Lieut. Church, from
Buenos Ayres—left on the 17th Dec. Moots Video 20th, and Rio de
Janeiro 25th Jan. March 3. in lat. 19.27. N. long. 37. M. W. spoke
the Glasgow, of and from Glasgow for Jamaica, all well. March 7, in
lat. 25.13. long. 37 49. passed an English brig of Liverpool, with two
flags up—yellow with a blue cross over, blue white blue
,horizontal-
boom to the foot of his foresail.

Arrived this morning ( Wind East) the Londonderry steamer, from
London, and sailed again for Dublin ; and the 31sry, Williamson, from
Palermo, in 31 days, bound to London.

rim ARMY.
MONTHLY lIIILITARY OBITUARY.

--- - .
Lieut. General—Roberts, East India Company's Service, Wrexham
Lodge, Bucks.
Major.General—N. M'Leod, lost in a steam-packet off Swansea.
Lleut,Colonel—Tucker, late R. Irish Art. Dublin.
Captains—Ridgeway, b. p. 36 F. Liverpool ; Speer, b. p. 1 F. Dun-
gannon ' • Lilievre, b. p. Newfound. Fenc. Canada ; Peers, h. p. 22 F;
Vassar, h. p. 1. Prov. Bn of Mil.
Lieutenants—Butler, 39 F. on passage from New South Wales;
Mathew, 49 F. Berhampore, Bengal ; Fleming, ditto do; Moss (Adj.
of Leeds Rec. District), Leeds; Walker, h. p. 7 F. Bordeaux; Ray-
mond, h. p. 57 F; De Ravariere, b. p. 60 F. Dominica; Moorhead,
h. p. F ; Wltay, h. p. 3W. I. Regt ; Weatherstone, h. p. Can.
Fenc. Quebec; Brooke, late 5 Roy. Vet. 80. York, Upper Canada;
Huggup, h. p. 7 F ; Champion, h. p. 12 W. I. Regt.
Cornet—Griffiths, b. p. Waggon Train, Jersey.
Paymaster—Armstrong, h. p. 21 F.
Quartermasters—Davenport, h. p. 16 Dr. Kenny, h. p. 32 Dr.
Hayes, h. p. 2 Fen. Cay. Christian, h. p. 2 Manx Fenc.
Surgeon—Thompson, 4 Dr. Kirks, Bombay.
Commissariat Department—Assist. Commis. Gen. Corbin, h. p.
Guernsey ; Assist Commis. Gen. Peceo, h. p. Corfu.
_ HALF PAY.

Return of the Total Amount of Army Half pay received by 1W Mill.
tary Officers ;of the Rates of Half-pay and Military Allowance of
each Class of the said Officers ; and of the Total Amount of their
Half-pay and Military Allowance.
(ABSTRACT.)
Numbers and Rank Annual Amoi
in the of
Regular Army. Half Pay.

'Annual Amount
of Militia
Allowance.

11 Captains ... ... ...
88 Lieutenants ... ... ..
21 Ensigns
1 Lieutenant and Adjutant ...
3 Cornets ... .. ...
7 Adjutants .. ..
4 Surgeons ... .. ..
2 Assistant Surgeons ... ...
1 Paymaster .. ... ...
12 Quarter- Masurs • • ...

X a. d.
1,186 6 0
6.031 12 6
1,000 14 2
82 2 6

Z 4. (1;
894 5 0
6,119 2 6
1,067 12 8
146 0 0
155 2 6
657 0 0
438 0 0
219 0 0
36 10 0
885 2 6

160 Totals . A
Together
War-Office, Much 21, 1831.

164 5 0
256 10 0
474 10 0
91 5 0
91 5 0
492 16 0

9,617 15 0

9,870 4 2
£19,487 19 2
C. W. WILLIAMS WYNN.

POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS.

The new Post Office regulations, as announced by Lord
Althorp on Wednesday night, by which part of the inhabi-
tants of the suburbs of the metropolis will be relieved
from the extra charge on their General Post letters, would
afford a more extensive and equitable relief if the radius (as
it is called) of three miles were taken from a point more in
the centre of the town than the Post Office itself happens
to be. A radius too, is not quite applicable to an oblong
space, the metropolis, from Kensington to Bow, being eight
miles in length, whereas it is scarcely more than half that
distance in width at any one point. A three-mile-radius
from the Post-Office will act, therefore, very unequally on
the east and western ends of the town ; for while, in the
former case, it will extend to Hackney and Mile-end, in the
latter it will not reach the Regent's Park, the Edgeware-
road, or Sloane-street, whereas an equidistant line taken
from Somerset House, which is the real centre of London,
would embrace all those latter points, and many more,
which the Post-Office radiKs would exclude. The boon,
however, will be a very material one, and we are quite con-
fident dint if by these, or any other suggestions, it can be
improved, the Duke of Richmond will not hesitate to do
all in his power to afford a just and equal accommodation
to the public.

It is stated that Whitehall chapel will not be opened for
divine service for a year and a half to come : the repairs on
the beautiful exterior of the building are nearly completed,
the rear of the edifice presenting a similar appearance in
architectural embellishment to the facade
A subscription, called the silver subscription, not to ex-
ceed Is. each person, has been set on foot under the auspices
G. T. Andrew's, of St. James's Church, in aid of the building
fund of St. George's Hospital ; this is an excellent mode.
of including those friendly to the institution, who would not
be able to contribute a much larger sum.