Star.
London, England, 1830-12-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURN4L&

Tarns—There is a paragraph in some of the evening papers, stating
that Lord Lyndhurst has accepted the office of Lord Chief Baron in the
place of Sir William Alexander, who was about to resign. As Sir
William Alexander does not intend to resign, though his age, and wealth,
and infirmities have naturally led to such a supposition, it cannot, of
course, be true that Lord Lyndhurst has been appointed to fill his place.
Lord Lyndhurst, indeed, has too much good sense and philosophy not to
feel that it is the man that gives dignity to the office, and not the of
to the man ; and in the event of a resignation, might possibly (though
of this we know nothing) consent to give additional importance to an
office now only of secondary rank.

Cuitoxicmc.—The appointment of Lord Lyndhurst to succeed Sir
William Alexander as Chief Baron of the Exchequer, is calculated to
give satisfaction in more respects than one. The pension of the Bs-
Chancellor will thus be saved to the country, and no man Is better cal.
culated to give effect to the new plans than his Lordship from his ac-
knowledged ability as a common-law Lawyer. We trust no unneces.
sary delay will be interposed in the way of his appointment, at a time
like the present, when men in whom the country can confide are so
much wanted for the Special Commissions. Chief Baron Alexander is
utterly unable to discharge this arduous duty ; and Lord Lyndhurst
could render most important services at this conjuncture.

Tiaza.—ln no case should a middleman be suffered to intervene
between the proprietor and the cottager--in no case should there be
any condition attached to the tenure of the cottage to void ion if
the occupant should be obliged to apply for parish relic ,f the
probability of such a necessity is reduced by the industrious and sober
habits which the plan tends to produce. The cottage system, with
small portions of land and garden ground attached—say half an aae
or an acre,—the land being contiguous to the cottager—appears to oar
many advantages, unequivocal. important, and certain. It secures
many comforts to a poor family ; it encourages industry, and promotes
sobriety. By endowing the labourer with the sembianto of property,
and teaching him the blessings of a home unvisited by the overseer,
it encourages the honest pride of independence, and alters the boa theme
of ultimately subduing or reducing some of the woest evils of the pau-
per system.

Cwaoirtemr.—A considerable sensation has been excited by the en.
expected position of Mr. Hunt at the Preston denim. He le still
greatly a head of Mr. Stanley. We wish we NMI elleelle for this in
a way creditable to the electors of Preston ; but we weileilesei the teal
secret of this suparierity le thedeterasinatien of lh. Saab, net ee throw

the public.houses open during the election, and that the object of the
votes for Mr. Hunt is to eompei him to indulge the electors in their
beloved potations. We suspect Mr. Hunt is well aware of his being
played off against Mr. Stanley's puree, and that his determination not to
repair to Preston, ekcept he is returned, is grounded on this suspicion.

PO/T.—The Army, owing to the internal state of the country, is
Immediately to be increased. Every regiment In the service is to re-
ceive an addition of 80 men, Le.the whole are to be completed from their''
present reduced establishment of 880 men each, to 740 each; which I
will make the total increase about 8,000 men. The necessity of this
increase will not be dit.puted by any real well-wisher of his country's
happiness and prosperity ; and for our part we regret, that in compliance
with the continual outcry of the present ministers, when in opposition,
the reduction now to he repaired should ever have been conceded to party
clamour.—Another fatal error, the result of whiggism, was committed
by the Marquis of Lansdowne, when serving the office of Home Secre-
tary, in almost totally disbanding that most useful of all bodies on oc-
casions similar to the pesent—the loyal and patriotic Yeomanry Ca-
valry—the want of whose efficient services in such a crisis is a considera. I
tion the most painful that the country for ages has had to deplore. The
exertions of these patriot bands would have restored tranquillity to the
nation in a very few days. We are happy however to find that the severe
loss thus sustained is likely to be shortly repaired by the loyal activity of
the leading Gentlemen in our principal Counties, who purely of their
own accord, without any inducement held forth by Government, are
enrolling Yeomanry Volunteers in great numbers, to the prompt embo-
dying and arming of whom Ministers, we hope and trust, will lose no
time in giving every possible encourage and support. In the mean
time the necessary orders for increasing the Regular Military Estab-
lishment have beet. issued from the War Office ; and the Recruits thus
obtained, there is reason to expect, will at once serve to increase our
strength and weaken the force of the domestic enemy, whose frightful
bulk is known to have been considerably swelled by disbanded soldiers
in most of the disturbed districts.

HERALD._The demand Cot reform in the Church cannot long be 1.
withstood, without endangering the fabric which abuses of long con.
tinuance have disfigured and defiled. We are advocates of that reform,
because we are anxious not to destroy, but to renovate—not to throw
down, but to repair. Religious institutions. above all others, should
rely for their support upon the moral force of enlightened opinion,
or else their foundation is not upon a rock, but in the sand. Al.
most from the era of the prosperity of the system of national
worship, those corruptions began, which have tarnished its beauty,
and impaired its strength. The time has come when those
defilements must be tom away, or the venerable edifice which
they desecrate will have to resist the shock, not of judicious re-
form, but of that violence which aims at subversion. Wi,h hostile
opidon:witbout, and the principles of decay undermining its atability
within, how can its resistance be long or effectual ? It is vain to deny
that the constitution of the Church is bad as to the unequal distribution
of wealth. It is equally vain to deny that its government is bad as to a
corrupt system of patronage. The one gives to the favoured few, who
eat of the fruit which they scarcely tend, riches, and pomp, and worldly
glory, and sends the labourers in the vineyard empty away. The other
burlesques the duties of a Christian Pastor by pluralities, livings in
eommendans, and other inventions, devised to pamper the indolent and
luxurious favourites of secular ambition, at the expense of the dearest
interests of religion.

CHRONICLE. —The Poles have risen. The Russian garrison of
Warsaw has been overpowered, after a determined resistanse, and the
Grand Duke Constantine with difficulty effected his escape. This in-
telligence, which has been some time looked for, and of which Minis-
tens first received intelligence on Saturday, may be confidently relied
on. A letter from Berlin, of the 3d December, announces the breaking
out of a violent insurrection at Warsaw on the 29th of November, in
which the Polish army took part. Four Russian Generals were killed,
among them the Minister of War of the kingdom of Poland The
Prince Czartorinsky has been named Chief of the new Polish Go-
vernment. This is, indeed, most important intelligence. At the very
moment when the despots of Europe are meditating fresh aggressions,
and collecting their strength for a desperate effort against the Great Na-
tion which has so gloriously broken its fetters—the victims of that
series of acts of injustice, the most flagrant of modern times which re-
mains yet to be atoned for, suddenly appear on the scene, to furnish em-
ployment for the armies Of the despots at home. The prayers of every
man, in whom all sense of justice is not obliterated, will be offered up to
heaven in behalf of the Poles. M Russia, Austria, end Prussia, be
compelled to abandon the spoil which, in the day of Poland's divisions,
they so Iniquitously shared ! What a lesson will be read to man-
kind, if, at the moment when despots, in the insolence of their might,
are meditating further invasions of the rights of nations, their arm is
walked by the consequences of former injustice ! The re-establish-
ment of Poland would be of immense consequence to Europe. From
Its extent of fruitful territory, and the number of ha inhabitants, now
upwards of twenty millions, Poland, with anything like an effective
Government, will be able to maintain its Independence. From its pad-
don between Russia and Germany, the noxious influence of the former
on the latter will be at an end, and the semi-barbarians of the
North will no longer be a bugbear to civil zed Europe.—
The struggles which the Poles have to maintain, before the can secure
their independence, is most serious. Russia, Austria, and Prussia, will
pour their armies into the country, without delay. France is now in a
very different state from that in which she was when the former great
partition took place. The question is full of difficulties. It is not to
be supposed, that if the Great Powers direct their forces against Poland,
the other Nations, now suffering under oppression, will remain passive
spectators of the strife. The combustibles are everywhere prepared
and the Po and the Rhine will, perhaps, more than sympathise with the
Vistula.

RETURN OF VISCOUNT ALTHORY FOR NORTH-
AMPTONSHIRE.

Abridged frost Me korMaimpton Mercury.
On Monday Lord Viscount Althorp was re.elected Representative
in Parliament for this county. It had been previously arranged that
his Lordship should be publicly received on his entrance into the
town. A large body of freeholders and friends aseembled at the park
gate of Delapre Abbey, the Sept of Edward Bouverie Ksq. a short
distance without the town walls, and escorted his Lordship, amid
the most enthusiastic buzzes and plaudits, which were responded by the
countless multitudes who thronged the sums' to the George Hotel,
in this town. The cavalcade, which was composed of upwards of 200
county and town residents, preceded his Lordship's carriage in files of
four each, followed by a numerous body of freeholder. and supporters on
foot, in ranks of eight, all wearing crimson and white rosettes and fa-
vours. This body was succeeded by a band of music, which played ap-
ptopriate national and patriotic airs. Then followed his lordship's car-
riage, hung round with wreaths of laurel, triumphantly drawn by a body
of his friends, and surrounded by attendants wearing coloured cockades,
and bearing staves to prevent any annoyance to his Lordship from the
eager curiosity of the crowds who collected round the carriage. The
bells of All Saints' Church commenced ringing on his Lordship's ear.
trance into the town.

Shortly .after eleven o'clock, Lord Abhor!), accompanied by a large
body of supporters, composed of many of the principal county gentle-
men entered the County Hall, and the doors, which had been kept
closed: to allow ladies and freeholders to get seats near the returning
officer, were thrown open. The hall was instantly filled ; and so great
was the crowd, that an adjournment took 'place to the Market-square,
when Lord Althorp, accompanied by a ine body of gentlemen and
fteeholders, reached the Market-square, and entered a waggon which
had been drawn to the spot for that purpose Sir William Wake,
Bart. of Courteen-hall, proposed Lord Althorp for the vacant seat in the
county representation ; and was seconded by Edward Bouverie, E.q
of Delapre.abbey.
Lord ALTHOIII, then came forward, and was most enthusiastimlly
received His Lordship said he appeared before them in a new posi.
tion. After the reception he bad met with, after the acclamations with
which he had been greeted, it would be affectation in him to pretend to
doubt whether they approved of the step he had taken in accepting
office (loud chats). He would therefore say nothing to defend it.
Ile had stated to them the political principles by which he was guided
when addressing them at the general election, and it would be unne-
cessary for him to detain them now by stating them again, for they were
not changed, he could assure them (cheers). He had always avowed
himself a friend to Reaorm in Parliament, to economy and to pence; and
these were the principles on which the Government was formed. ( Ap-
plause.) Indeed, nothing could have induced him to take office uukss
an effectual reform had been made a Government question. (Laud
cheering.) He hoped the state of the country at the time they under-
took the administration would be recollected—for, in point in tact, a
large part of It was In a state bordering upon insurrection (Hear, bear.)
He could not but address himself to the labouring classes, who, he was
sure, knew that he had always been their trrend, and begged them to
consider that by destroying the properly of their employers they de-
stroyed the means of their own employment. And the fully of destroy.
ing the ricks was still greater, as that was actually destroying their own
food. (Applause.) He asked the farmers if their farms were all in such
complete order that they could not employ some additional bands upon
them during the winter (hear I), and whether they did not think this
must be more advantageous than setting active sad able-bodied men to
work at starving wages upon the roads (hear, and loud cheers)? He
also called on the landlords to help their tenantry as they ought In this
attempt, as such improvements would tend to their advantage (cheers).
His Lordship cmicluded by hoping that they would repose their conk.
dens in him, and was rapturously applauded with clapping of hands
for a considerable length of time.
A show of hands was ibex made, and we think there was scarcely an
individual of the extensive and dense crowd, which occupied all sides
of the plains to an immense extent, but who exhibited kb hand on
the assolos No other candidate of course appeared, and his Lord.
ship wee adored duly elected amid the moat deafening and universal
shoals a ilypionaa.
Wands et dose livadred gentlemen subsequently sat down to a
pleaded dims at the Omer, at which many patristic and spirited
speeder Tees &limed, and the almost cordiality and conviviality
peetnibl.