Star.
London, England, 1830-08-17 00:00:00

SI'IRIT OF TILE JOURNALS.

Tits. --Whatever obj. ction other Powers of Europe may have
to the occupation of Algiers by the French, such objection will not
he the only difficulty the conquerors' will have to overcome in re.
taming possession of the place. From several private letters in the
Paris journals, it appears that the troops arc daily exposed to attacks
from the Arabs in the surrounding mountains, and to insurrections and
assassinations within the town. It is said in one letter that an atttempt
has been madeto poison the soldiers with bread, and that some who
had partaken of it had died, while others remained sick. It is stated
by the Nalionot that discontent in the army is general, and that all
the letters from Algiers are full of complaints against the Com-
mander in Chief, to whose mismanagement the unfavourable situ-
ation of the army is atuibuted. The troop, it seems, call for a
court.martial on their General, and when the previous unpopularity
of llourmont has received such an aggravation, it may be presumed
that this call will not he disregarded. lien. Clausel left Paris on
Friday for Toulon, where he embarks, with a commission to super-
sede liourniont in the government of Algiers.

TIMES.—The election dinner of Mr. Brougham and Lord Mor.
peth, for the county of York, was celebrated in that city on Friday
last, with a magnificence. or at least an ardour and sincerity, appro. ,
priatc to the occasion. AVe should have now let the business pass
with the usual description ; but there is clearly an error or two in
limiter of fact and in reasoning, which we are anxious to put
right. Mr. Brougham charged his Majesty's present Ministers.
and particularly the Duke of Wellington, with wishing well
to the Polignac Administration ! And the charge was im-
mediately and very properly received with expressions of
dissent. The charge is not true : it is unfounded. Our Ministers
might wish well to the Polignac administration, as our laws wish
welt to thieves upon their trial—" GOD send you a good deli-
verance ;" but as to any recommendation of the Polignac Ministry,
or any approval of its conduct after it was formed, we know,
and so does the intelligent part of the British public know, that
nothing could be farther from the minds of our Ministers. They'
could not foresee the precise events that would result, and they
had no right to interfere with the King of France in the
composition of a Ministry, but they did apprehend mischievous
consequences from the choice of such a creature as Polignac ; and
Polignac's consciousness of their aversion to him, induced hint on I
many petty occasions to treat them with insolence after his accession
to power. But Mr. BrougNam says, that the proof of our Govern-
Mellen attachment to the Polignac administration will be esta-
blisliAl, if they suffer the ex-King of France to bring his baggage
Into England without being subject to search and seizure, or search
and rejection. Now, what may be the intention of our Government
upon this point, we know not; nor do we even know whether the
king of France is coining to England : but Mr. Brougham should
think (if but for a moment) on what he is saying. If the ex-King of
France conies to England, he brings nothing to our shores but what
the people of France have suffered hint to take away with him. Why
arc they to be the only generous people upon earth, and we the only
malignant petty cavillers ? lie has not withdrawn surrcptitiouly ; he
has been conducted publicly and slowly by his subjects almost from
the centre of the kingdom to its western coast, and they might have
stripped him, if they had pleased, to Ids shirt. But unqueation.
ablyswith whatever they dismiss the wretch, any civilized nation
upon earth would receive him. We have no respect for him. no
pity for him, but a great regsrd for the dignity of the British cha-
racter, as compared with that of France. Charles X has never in.
jured us : those whom he has injured cruelly and basely, have yet
the magnanimity to dismiss him with some allowance, perhaps of
unexamined money and goods : what right have we to step in be.
tween their bounty and the undeserving object of it?

CHRoNICLE.--At a Public Dinner given to Sir James Graham
at Whitehaven, on Saturday week, a gentleman having asked Sir
James's sentiments "on the great and glorious revolution which
has just taken place," he answered :—" When I first read the
Ordinance issued by the King, for crushing the Liberty of the
Press, and with it the Liberty of France, I had but one senti-
tuent —that of trembling anxiety to see whether that great and
noble people would rise up at once and vindicate their rights, by
destroying that reckless tyrant—that heartless Monarch—that in-
sane man (cheers)—or wait the surer, but not less certain progress of
time for expelling front their bosom the serpent which they had
nourished only to sting them. This anxiety was speedily put an
end to by the intelligence which has spread joy throughout the land,
and raised one universal feeling of exultation amongst all men who
know and feel what liberty is (cheers.) Never, l will venture to
say, did history record a revolution more necessary in its corn-
tneneement, more terrible in its warning to all tyrants, more just
in its vengeance, or more speedy and glorious in its termination.
—(Cheers.) The rights of free men are not to be compromised
by, nor held at the will of tyrants; and this lesson cannot
be too strongly impressed upon all men—that the people
have an indefeasible right of resistance to Kings and to kingly
power, whenever that power is exercised against their liberties.
(Applause.) Sir James haying added—..." I trust that the French
people will show with what moderation they can use victory, by
sparing the life of that wretched and outcast man who was their So
vereign.'' W. Lawson, Esq. of Braytonhall, the Gentleman who
proposed the Hon. Bart. at the Election, on the Tuesday following,
observed-4. From one part of his speech I slightly differ,
and that difference will be best shown by the toast I ant about
to propose : May the heads of Don Miguel, King Fcrdi.
nand, and Charles Capet, be severed from their bodies and tolled in
the dust. and the more speedily the better." The toast was drunk
with applause. According to the intelligence from Madrid, we may
soon expect to hear of important events in that country. Ferdinand's
reign will not probably last much longer. The influence of the
great movement in France must speedily be felt throughout the
peninsula. The statements in the letter front Madrid, in
another column. may or may not be true; but that important
changes must take place in Spain, is a point as to which there can
be little doubt. When speaking of Ferdinand, we naturally recur
to the period when a French army, led by the Duke d'Angouleme,
enabled hint to trample a second time on the Constitution of his
country. On that occasion we well remember the fulsome praises
lavished to the hero of the Trocadero. How times are changed !
We have betbre us a Brochure, just published in Paris, under the
title of " The Flight of the Royal Family—exact relation of which
passed at St. Cloud, Rambouillet, Maintenon, Laigle, Argentan,
and Cherbourg "—in which, while the late King is spoken of as
having been unable to extricate himself from the influence of Priests
sod Emigrants, but yet possessing " no decided penchant for des-
potism," the hero of the Trocadero is throughout treated as an idiot
and a coward. "He was incapable (it is observed) of connecting
two ideas together," such was his hcbeiement. The only man of
the family was, it is said, the Duchess d'Angouleme. So much for
history. Vet the destiny of thirty.two millions of men would have
been committed to this idiot!

IlEnaett.-IThe tesult of the election for Cambridgeshire has
afforded another signal triumph of public sentiment over ministerial
influence. That county now sends two independent Members to
Parliament; and, in achieving its own " emancipation," has pretty
strongly indicated the sense which it entertains of the wisdom and
virtues of the ministry which its ejected representative supported.
It was no moderate aversion to the principles of the Wellington
administration that could so rouse the energies of the county as to
dislodge Lord Manners front a seat which he fondly considered
as his inalienable possession, backed as he was by the Minis-
terial er,cl.,mials, and by the hereditary influence of the
house of Rutland. M'llen it was first understood that Mr. Adeane
would offcr himself to the electors, the friends of the "family com-
pact" studiously gav, it out that his coming forward would endanger
the seat of Lord Francis Osborne; but, after a few days' contest,
Lord Osborne remained at the head of the poll, and the dominion
which the Rutland family exercised over the county was signally
and completely subverted. It was gratifying to see this contest
conducted, on the popular aide, without any manifestation of
personal feeling. but entirely on the ground of public prin.
ciple. Nor was there any thing like personal exultation at the
expense of the beaten candidate ; on the contrary, the manly
and honest electors, who, in vindication of a great principle, and in
the free exercise of their political privilege, occasioned his overthrow,
commisserated his fate, and did justice to his private worth. But the
Government do not come as clean out of this contest as Lord Man-
aerie. He deserves credit for not having vexatiously kept open the
poll when he found that he had no chance of ultimate success. But
how did the Government act P Lord F. Osborne, if the report
of his speech be correct, impeached them of interfering
with the freedom of election. Be said " he had reason to know,
for he had seen it in black and ratite, that the interest of one
great departinent of the Government had been given against
nim, because he was not willing to support the blundering adminis-
tration." The administration, however, made an additional blun-
der by supposing that their influence could turn the scale of this
election. They calculated with rather too much confidence upon
the venal obsequiousness of the electors of Cambridgeshire—so did
they miscalculate their strength in Norfolk, where Mr. Wodehouse
was sent " to the right about ;" and in Suffolk, where Sir
Thomas Gooch had his twenty-five years of Ministerial sub-
serviency rep.ti,l, by being kindly relieved from the onerous du-
ties of Representative of the county for the future. It is true,
his devotion to the public service was so great, that be was
not., like Cincinnatus, anxious to leave the cares of Govern.
ment and retire to his plough, and therefore the electors found
it necessary to use some gentle compulsion in divesting him of the
senatorial robe, in which, after some struggling on his part, they
happily succeeded. He may now return to his fat 'ethers and his
tumip-fields, and enjoy the conscious satisfaction of having selnui-
buted, by the policy which he supported, to raise the agricultural
and other great interests of the country to that state of " unrivalled
prosperity* which they now present. Also I foe the 83 new Mem.
bets which the present elections were to give to Ministers. We

may well ask the " whipper.in" where are they to be found ? If
Mr. Jolliffe, who has just lost Surrey, be not more sucsessful in
finding in the fox_hunting season, he had better forswear the
sport that has qualified him for statesmanship altogether, and sit
down and study the dialectics of Aristotle !