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London, England, 1831-08-20 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS .-TH IS DAY.

%runt's, A us. 4.—The Cholera continues to spread
"tr Hungary, and on this side the Danube also, whielf may
be ascribed in a great measure to the ignorance of the corn.
mon people, who still consider this epidemic as only the
common Dysentery, and endeavour to evade the regulation
of the Board of Health. The mortality in Pisth and Ofen,
is already considerable; and it is said that eases of the
Cholera have occurred even at Wieselburg, 12 (00) miles
from Vienna, for the supply of which it Is highly Important,
011 account of the Corn Market.

Phis
news has again caused some agitation in the capital,
though it is only now that the military cordon OD the fron-
tiers of Hungary becomes really effective—all the measures
bring more completed; u experience shows, the propagation
snottier has hitherto been prevented on the frontiers of
Moravia and Silesia. We may therefore hope, that if the
unsure' of precaution are strictly enforced, the capital will
rtroain free from the disorder. It is possible that part of
'" garrison may be sent to strengthen the unitary cordon,
'3 ehich case the armed Burgher guard would do part (Atha
duty in the city. It is said his Majesty is firmly resolved
.0 come to the city, and reside for the winter in the palace
Belvidere, if any symptoms of disorder should appear
Acre. It is supposed, that in this case, the young Xing
`4, Hungary will go to Prague ; the Arch-duke Francis
f harles to Milan ; and other members of the imperial
sunray remain here.

The public here hate bee* mach surprised at the

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20.

Own o'CLocz, Tans Day.—Thermometer, 47. Be.
rometer, 29.70. Wind N.N.E. Weather, fair, with high
wind and clouds.

In a Third Edition of yesterday's &TAX, we
gave the contents of a dispatch from Paris, con-
taining the final decision on the Address, 282 to
73; but we bad not room to specify the amend-
ments which bed previously been made in it by
the Opposition, no/ the concessions made by the
Ministry to obtain the show of a majority, not to
their Address, but to some Address.

The equivocal policy of the Minister was
exposed by the most enlightened men in France.
and an amendment was carried assuring to Poland
the support of France ; another calling fora sys-
tem of general education of the people ; and others
pledging the government to relieve the labouring
classes, diminish the direct Taxes, &c. There
was much shuffling and equivocation, but the
amendments were carried or yielded, and hence the
great majority ; the 73 being those who object to
the system of the government in tote, forming the
extreme left of the Chamber, including some names
consecrated in the Pantheon of History.

The news from Poland was brought down to the
6th of August, two or three days later than other
previous accounts, or than in any other paper.
We consider it as very satisfactory. R DIG Ca's
corps, which may be regarded as the right wing of
PASI !WITCH, has suffered a check, and been
obliged to recross the Vistula. PA SKEW ITCH may
therefore be assailed on all sides in the rear, from
the right bank where the Poles are masters ; on
the left by the Polish corps from Modlin ; on the
right by the Landsturm; and in front by Sitar T-
x acx 1, with the main Polish army from Warsaw.
The accounts signify that the Poles mean to give
battle, and have moved forward with that inten-
tion ; a few days will, therefore, apprise us of the
faults. If PASILIW ITCH is pushed, he wilrpro-

pose an armistice, and Foreign Journals warrant
the expectation of such a result.

We had not room yesterday to give place to
the accounts in another column in this day's
paper, of the capture of St. Micitc et's, by
the adherents of Donna Maria. She is thus
mistress of a fine groupe of islands, which,
under wise administration, might be rendered
the entrepot of general commerce. Mio u
having lost his navy, can take no measures
to disurb her sovereignty ; and there appears
to be no obstacle to prevent the same enter-
prizing parties from taking possession of Ma-
deira, and the Cape Verd Islands ; even of Angola,
Goa, and Macon; and thus leaving MIGUEL and
his Confessors, with the carcase of Portugal, with-
out limbs. But surely his mock government, and
that of his abettor, will not much longer be al-
lowed to insult the age.
A rumour prevails in the City to-day, and which
is believed by the Portuguese merchants, that the
island of Madeira has surrendered to Count V i LLA
Fro R.

We have never attached much importance to the
continuance or departure of the French from Bel-
gium, though we should have felt differently if a
Prussian or Austrian army had been employed on
the same service. The French will at least aid
and abet no infringement on the liberties of the
Belgians. The French King, in his reply to the
address, describes his army as the instrument of
the London conference, either for continuance or
departure. If the Five Powers, . therefore, are
satisfied, peace will not be disturbed by this circum-
stance; and if none but French troops are em-
ployed, no jealousy need be felt by the friends of
public liberty. If Perier and his master do not
sustain liberty with energy, and if they mistake
the revolution of July, they are too prudent to
commit any flagrant outrage on public feeling.
_......._
On our Reform Bill we e ar as weary of comment
as our readers must be of commentary. We were ,
for the whole bill, and so are they ; for we regard
them as the mass of the enlightened public. We
must, however, lament, and re-lament, that minis-
ters were seduced by any sophistry to consent to
alter the, clause, giving votes to £5O leaseholders
of 21 years, whose leases had been perfected for 2
years. No clause in the bill was more generally
satisfactory, and no principle of it was heard with
more pleasure when it was first enunciated in the
opening speech of Lord Joux RUSSELL. It was
fair to give it to certain independent leaseholders,
but treacherous to give it to dependent ones for
7 years only ; and it is the ruin of the bill to give
it to vassals who bold their farms at will from year
to year. It is moreover insulting to compare such
dependants for subsistence to £lO householders,
who oblige their landlords by occupation, instead
of depending on them like farming tenants at will,
for their means of subsistence. We are of opi-
nion, therefore, that the people of England should
meet, and with orE vote a demand the restoration
of the original clause, and should also denounce as
traitors to the Bill, all those who were pledged to
support it, and who have thus admitted
tens of thousands of dependent votes.—
If farmers, who hold for fifty-pounds a-year
are respectable, they are, 9 times in 10, free-
holders ; and if not respectable enough to own a
40s. freehold, they ought not to be allowed to
VITIATE Till WHOLE CONSTITUENCY. In fact
it is an injury and insult to them ; for, without
the Ballot, they dare not vote except in accord-
ance with the wishes of their landlords. On this
subject we hope the Press will concur with as;
and we are persuaded that even the £5O farmers
themselves will unite with all the people, in op-
posing such a mockery of their dependance.
The question of the CORN LAWS is viewed with
intense feelings in the manufacturing districts, not
merely because it is an undue protection to the
agricultural interest, against the weight of taxes
under which other classes are suffering, but be-
cause it lessens and interferes with the export of
manufactures to corn countries. Those who
manufacture for exportation are entitled to
goods, or bills for goods, in return, which
goods are chiefly grain from the several corn-
growing and trading nations. If then the grain
is taxed on coming into England, the manufac-
turers very properly regard this as a tax on their
manufactures, and in a very high scale of taxa-
tion. This effect would be gross and palpable, if
the manufacturer himself took his goods to Ham-
burgh and brought back corn as their price;
for it is evident, that though an English-
man, he could not bring into tie country
the returns for his labour, without paying
from ten to fifty per cent. duty en them.—
Then a double operation, by bills drawn on London
for the corn, and bills drawn on Hamburgh for the
manufactures, makes no real difference, and is only
a change of hrin and name in the transaction.
*.fhe eitz on awn operates, therefore, as a direct
asmasiseat es oar exported manufactures—or, in
other .werdpi on manufacturing labour, and is a
cZ,
bonus to the landowners by the manufac-
, 3
turns ~,. The indirect operation, too, is
Iref,_ P 11111110"., ' for a tax on their produce here
discowiges asconsumptiou of British manufactures
in cortt=grovving countries ; and the manufacturer
et the sane time has himself to boy at home the
highly taxed core for his own consumption. The
abatement it the duty would, therefore, in every
sense, semi the meaufacturers ; and it seems at
Ithe same time quite certain, that their improved

condition would enable them to consume more corn
and pay a higher price, so as to create little differ-
ence to the British agriculturist. The same rea-
soning may be variously illustrated, but we pre-
sume that this statement will have put the whole
question in the clearest light.
In the LORDS, a petition on the Newtowobarry
affair was not received, because it called it a Mns-
sscar. What else should it be called—what will
history call it ? In our portable dictionary, we find
Massacre—defined to be " butchery, carnage,
murder, havoc"—would either of these synonymes
have been more polished ? The Irish seem like the
Macedonians, to be honest people, and to call A
spade, a spade. An Irish member said the
yeomanry were not better than butchers'
boys ; perhaps, therefore, the most appropriate
of the synonimous terms would have been
" Butchery." It was, however, too solemn an
affair for punning upon; and it yet remains to ha as
solemnly atoned for.

In the COMMONS, Alderman Wood made op-
posed progress in his very proper Steam-boat Bill.
Mr. Hume presented a petition from the London
Political Union, who, quoting the grant to the
Queen, demanded £25 a-year for widows of the
working classes. It was opposed as an insult,
but vindicated by Mr. Hume, and Mr. Hunt,
and then *withdrawn.

Mr. Hume presented petitions against taxes
on knowledge; and Mr. C. Pelham stated' that
they were continued merely to support the mo-
nopoly of one newspaper, which aided the
Ministry.

The Mayor of Grimsby was brought to the
bar; but he referred to his Town Clerk, who was
ordered to be brought to the bar on Tuesday.
In the Reform Committee Lord Althorp pro-
posed some complicated alterations in the 16th
clause, to accommodate it to the alteration made
in regard to £5O tenants at will, giving the franchise
to £5O householders. Afterwards other altera-
tions and additions, as to tenure and property,
altooher technical, were adopted, and the 16th
and 17th clauses passed. A long debate arose
about returning officers, and the 18th, 19th, and
20th clauses were postponed till this day.
Mr. Lefroy's Bill for uniting parishes in Ire-
land was opposed by Mr. Hume and Mr. Stanley,
and lost by 38 to 11.

The House of Commons met this day at Half-
past twelve o'clock, and after the presentation of
various petitions against the punishment of death
for theft, for the introduction of Poor Laws into
Ireland, and against the use of molasses in
distilleries, Mr. Stanley ►►►oved the order of
the day, for the third reading of the Lord
Lieutenant's Ireland Bill. After a few words
'from Mr. O'Connell, who opposed the Bill, the
learned member moved that it be read this day six
months. Colonel Connellly supported it ; and Sir
Richard Musgr.lve seconded Mr. O'Connell's mo-
tion. After a short debate Mr. O'Connell said he
should not press his amendment, and the Bill
was accordingly read a third time, and passed.
The House then proceeded to the discussion
of the 18th clause of the Reform Bill.

Accounts have beet77eceived this day from
Dublin of the death, at his palace, in Stephen's
Green, on Thursday morning, of his Grace the
Archbishop of Dtrintat, Primate of all Ireland.
A Chapter of the Order of the Garter was this
day held at Windsor Castle, for the purpose of in-
vesting the Duke of Saxr.-Mattrtwocw with the
Order. The investiture was attended by the
Officers of State in the QUEEN'S Drawing-room.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Consuls, which left off yesterday at 81 j,
82 for the account, opened at the same price.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols have been fluctuating during the morn-
ing from 81f to 82 i : at the latter price they are
at present.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock, 1984 9. Three per Cent. Rod. 824 4.
Tines per Cent Consols, 82 14 2. Three and a Half per
Cent. 1818, Three and a Half per Cent. Rod. 904.
Three and a Half par Cent New, 894 4. Four per Ct.
1826, 1004. Long Annuities, Jan.lBoo, 16 16.16 17 1-16.
Annuities, Oct. 1869, —; do. Jan. 1860, India
Stock. —; do. Bonds, 1 prem. South B.a Stock,
ZlOOO Exchequer Bills, 8 7 9 7; £6OO do. 8 9 6; 4100
and MOO do. 9 l2. Consols for Account, 89 II 24 2.
Quebec papers to the 17th July, and Montreal
to the same date, have been received at the North
and South American Coffee-house. The Quebec
paperssay, " This day his Excellency the Gover-
nor-in-Chief embarked on hoard the hired Colonial
brig Kingfisher, on a tour to the maritime parts of
, the province. A royal salute was fired on his
I departure."
On Tuesday the Emigrant Society commenced
its duties, under the resolution of the late meet-
ing, for the relief of the distressed emigrants:
Total of emigrants arrived to July 9 32.780
Arrived since 2,668

Total to near this day 33,366
TII E CROPS.-It is gratifying to learn that
accounts from all parts of the two Canadas, and
also from the neighbouring States, agree in de-
I scribing the appearance of the growing crops as
most promising. Tue Montreal paper state that a
severe shock of an earthquake was felt in the
neighbourhood of the city of Quebec, about mid-
night, in various directions.
The United Kingdom of to-cbty contains some
severe strictures on the foreign, domestic, and co-
lonial policy of the present Ministers. and parti-
cularly on Lord Althorp,with respect to the colonies,
the newspaper dories, and the division of counties,
&c. It proposes that Earl Grey should form a
new ministry, the leading personages to be as fol-
lows :—Earl Radnor to hare the Home—Lord
Durham the Foreign—and the Marquis of Lana-
down the Colonial Department—the Duke of Wel-
lington to be Viceroy of Ireland, with Lord King
as Secretary, and Mr. Hume to be appointed Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, which the United Kindows
asserts would have the confidence of the country,
to which the present Government, by vacillation.
imbecility, and -disunion among themselves, have
forfeited.