Star.
London, England, 1831-09-03 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The nomination of the Members of the Chamber
of Peers is to belong to the King. Their number
is to be unlimited. The dignity of Peer is to be
conferred for life. It is not to be transmissible by
the right of hereditary succession. This is the pro-
ject of the Ministers, as submitted to France, and
the people regard it as anti-national, impolitic, and
unjust. The Deputies of the Commission ap-
pointed by the Bureaux to examine the Pro-
ject, and report thereon, aro M. Viennet, Deputy
for the Department of Herault, a supporter of
the Casimir Perier Administration.

M. Devaux, Deputy for the department of
Cher, neither ministerial nor anti-ministerial, but
of the Berenger party.
M. Berenger, the talented and zealous reporter
of the commission which prepared the " insolent"
Address to Charles X. now of that independent
party which is neither decidedly ministerial nor
decidedly otherwise.
M. Daunou, Professor of History to the College
of France, Deputy for the department of the Seine.
He is anti-ministerial.

M. Guizot, Doctrinaire, Professeur a la Faculte
des Lettres de Paris. A zealous supporter of M.
Perier, whose system he claims the honour of in-
venting !
A new Deputy, M. Lherbette, Deputy for the
department of Aisne. He belongs to the France
of .1u1y,1830, and will speak and vote accordingly.
M. Keratry, of the party of M. Royer Collard.
He courted the Restoration till it rejected him, and
now belongs to the juste milieu, he is between being
respected and disliked.
The Bth Bureau has named M. Ganneron—a
Deputy of l'aris, decidedly ministerial, and thinks
that the test of national greatness is to have 3 per
cents, at 82.

Baron de Schonen,Councillor to the Royal Court
of Paris ; Commissary for arranging the Civil List;
one of the Members of the Extreme Gauche.
He was always distinguished for his almost Ultra-
Liberalism.

M. Guizot and M. Ganneron are the only two
objected to. The Ministerial project is anti-
national ! The journals of the people are all op-
posed to it, and the journals write for the mass and
for public opinion. The Constitutionnel, the Cour-
rier Francais, the Natio 414 the Globe, the Jour-
nal du Commerce, the Tribune, and the Revolu-
tion, are all opposed to it. The Temps disapproves
of the project, but desires an hereditary peerage.
The Debats is of the same opinion. The Me*.
sager des Chambres and La France Nouvelle, ass
both in favour of the bill, simply because it is a
Ministerial measure, and because they are paid so
much per month.
It is impolitic, because it is an apology for an
hereditary Peerage, and a presage of a speedy re-
turn to that system. It is an absurd attempt to
deceive the public, which can be seen through and

despised.
And it is also unjust—because it places France
under a government in which the King must have
a vast preponderance of power; to the revolution,
because it proposes to leave to the King and Peers
the right of deciding on their own privileges with
reference to the Peerage, when the revolution, as
popular, had the right of deciding this for itself;
to the Peers, becauses it proposes to leave them in
a state of uncertainty as to the fate of their titles;
and to the Deputies, because it deprives them of
their right, as a constituent assembly, to Irse the
23d article of the Charter.—Morning
PA a is.—The Commission appointed to
the project of law on the Peerage has
M. Berenger its President, and M.
Secretary. It was completed yesterday
election of M. L'Herbette for the fifth "

Letters from Augsburg, received y
Paris, state that 4,000 Bavarian troops had
repaired to the frontiers of Austria, to fi
sanitary cordon.
The Chamber of Peers will meet on
the 31st of August, at two o'clock, in
ceive a message from the crown.

We have received no late news from
The Nuremberg Courier of Peace and
the following : " Private letters from

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 3.

ONE O'CLOCK, THIS DAY.—Thermometer, 64. Ba-
rometer, 29-90. Wind N.N.W. Weather, fair.

The Dutch mail of this morning brings an ar-
ticle from the Prussian State Gazette, of the 26th
01 August, ct,ntaining Russian reports of the ope-
rations in Poland, and, in fact, nothing new, and,
.f course, nothing unfavourable to the Poles. We,
iimever, regard the information as highly favour-
-Jib., since the proper business of the Russians is
off nce, and the initiative of operations. The
season is wearing fast away, and the Russians
are not in a position to receive reinforcements,
pile it is notorious, that their army has long been
softering front pi ivations, disease, and disorgani-
zation. The only consolation which the Prussian
%le Gazette affords to the partizans ofl

Courts, is the assertion that the Polish population
is not hostile, and the probable fact that the Poles
are wearied of the war. There are sycophants
enough every where, to say agreeable things to a
General of an army, in the occupation of a coun-
try ; but to boast of this, and have only this boast,
augurs, in our opinion, that the campaign, if
hostilities are continued, will end unfavourably to
the Russians.

On the other hand, it is admitted that the Polish
army is at least equal in number to the Russians;
and then in spirit, we should consider every
ten Poles as an overmatch for twenty or thirty
Russians. It is, however, not to be dissem-
bled, that the ardour of the Poles is likely
to be damped, by those divisions among
themselves, of which we have lately had too many
proofs. There can be no doubt, but that during
the long Russian occupation of Warsaw, they
must have established many intimate connections,
who have viewed with evil-eye the ascendancy of
the Polish Patriots ; and who, no doubt, have held
correspondence with the Russian Generals, during
the entire conflict. Russian money and intrigue
may, therefore, effect more than military operations,
and produce mistrust and dissention among the
Poles, fatal to their military energies.

If .he ambition of PAs K EWITSC II to achieve that
in which DIEBITSCII so totally failed does not
lead to a battle, or if the Poles can be brought to
agree to such a basis as Franc• and England may
suggest, and do not prefer in the sprint of chivalry
to put every thing at hazard, we are fully per-
suaded that negotiations are on foot, to put an end 11
to this disgraceful war. It is not, however, to be
concealed, that ihe Poles are neither a commercial
nor calculating people, and that they still cherish a
spirit of heroism, which, under the banners of
honour and Poland, will prevent their
submitting to any ignominious compromise.
We do not believe that they will lay down
their arms, unless Warsaw, and a respectable ter-
ritory, be rendered wholly independent of Russia ;
and all the compromise which can be expected or
extorted will be, to concede some provinces to
Russia, and perhaps some others to Austria and
Prussia. In this point of view, the war may not
be so near its end as benevolence and diplomacy
may wish. If they reconcile their own differences,
and if PA S K EWITSCII gains no decisive advantage,
before the middle of September, Russia will never
again be able to make head against Poland, while
united Poland would be in little fear from the other
royal robbers.

Readers of the Debate will observe, that no
less than Five Clauses of the Reform Bill were
agreed to last night, and that the House met again
to-day, to consider the 30th, and some subsequent
Clauses. Other Clauses, to its desirable end, are
like those which passed last night—of mere formal
and technical character ; and we should not wonder,
if by this day week, we should have the gratifica-
tion to announce, that it had passed through the
Committee. The report, and the third reading,
may, therefore, be expected to be effected in another
week ; and thus this herculean labour will
be accomplished. Let us hope that the Mi-
nister will then consider himself at leisure
to pursue other objects, whose delay or
neglect hare created so reasonable an impatience
in the country. The support which Ministers, in
so trying a period, hare experienced from the
press, warrants us in the expectation, that his
earliest object will be to redeem his pledge to the
newspapers—to reduce the oppressive stamp duty,
and the injurious tax on advertisements. If the
Exchequer stand in need of an extra half million,
the most certain means of producing it, will be to
reduce the present duties, a full half, or two
thirds. We also anticipate that the six acts, which
so unconstitutionally interfere with cheap publi-
cations, and the liberty of the subject, will
no longer be allowed to disgrace the statute-
book. We venture to surmise, that distinct
announcements in regard to these, and other
ameliorations in Parliament, previous to the day of,
the Coronation, is a duty of Ministers to His
MAJESTY, with a view to give every possible
eclat and sincerity to the rejoicings which are
zontemplated through the country, on the auspi-
cious day of the installation of a PATRIOT KING.

In the present stagnation of trade, and the
deeply lamented distresses of the artisans and
labouring classes of this Metropolis, we venture
to suggest, as a kind, a liberal, and a practicable
concession, that on the day of THL CORONATION,
a solid and moderate festival, open to all corners,
should be given in the several parishes of the
Metropolis. It might be effected at the moderate
cost of eighteenpence per plate, including eatables
and a pot of porter. The expense would be
cheerfully contributed, by a collection from house
to house ; and the rate-payers would not be-
grudge, that any deficiency should be made good,
from the ordinary public assessments. We are
persuaded that the general adoption of such a
plan would be most agreeable to the public
authorities, and especially to the Royal Family,
and to their MAJESTIES. In fact we have no
doubt, that those illustrious personages—the no-
bility—the great capitalists— and others, would
liberally contribute to popular enjoyment on such
an occasion.

In the House of Lords last night, the Lord
Chancellor, with consistency of public character,
and in agreement with those talents from which
the country has expected so much, brought

in his Bill to amend the obsolete and anti-
quated processes which now bring contempt on
the practice of our Ecclesiastical Courts. It
was read a first time, and ordered to be
printed. In a few days, we will lay a copy before
our readers. Lord Aberdeen, &c. introduced some
quibbling about Portugal, &c.—only interesting to
themselves.

In the House of Commons, an immense variety
of very interesting petitions were presented by dif-
ferent members ; and among others, three by Mr.
Littleton from traders in London, who are desirous
that the first day of the week, or the LORD'S day,
should be kept after the manner of the Jewish
sabbath, or the seventh day. Colonel Torrens
supported the petitions on civil grounds. Mr.
Hunt and Mr. Weyland objected to any increase
of penalties; after which they were laid on the
table.

Sir R. Vyvyan made some observations about
the new protocols, which Lord Althorp treated as
of no importance.
In the Committee on the Reform Bill, the 25th,
26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th Clauses were passed,
after some discussion, in which Sir E. Sugden dis-
tinguished himself. On the 27th Clause, a divi-
sion took place on an amendment by Sir T. Free-
mantle-29 to 102. The 28th Clause was wholly
omitted. The Game Bill was read a third time
and passed.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left off Yesterday at 81i to 82,
opened at the same price; since which, were done
at 82 to 82i. At present they are 82, with little
doing.