Star.
London, England, 1831-02-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE EXCLUSIVE.

abolished had reference rather to diminish patronage than

expence.
Much as the great meekfParliamentary Reform is
requirsid, altalnutiously es it is looked for, it can only be
considered as the means by which relief is to be afforded to
the many urgent species of distress, which ukt present tend
to produce discontent in various parts of the empire •, and •
one of the difficulties of our situation is, that while the dis-
cussion which Parliamentary Reform--or tha means to relief
—is likely to occupy time, and the carrying it 'into effect,
is likely to be slow, and very uncertain in its execution—
the distresses of the people are too real to be postponed ;
but are certain-to produce, 'daily, an increase of embarrass-
ing excitement and trouble to Government. \Vo sincerely
hope, that the impressions so generally expressed, of the
pacific state of Ireland may prove correct ; for even a tempo-
rary lull, until Ministers bring forward their promised mea-
sures of relief, is desirable ; but the present panic must not
be mistaken as a secure tranquillity; and nothing so much
has a tendency to deceive into this persuasion, as that of
attributing the last excitement, entirely to the influence of
Mr. ()Vox WELL ; and forgetting that the real, and sub-
stantial cause of popular agitation, is in Ireland, as it is
uniformly every where else, to be attributed to the existence
of grievances which can neither be encreased, nor diminished,
or concealed by eloquence, deception or mystification.

The evils of Ireland have been often stated, but the follow-
ing passage from an obscure but ingenious work, written in
1805, by a Dr. HALL, " On Civilisation," condenses into
a smaller compass than we have before seen, the then evils
of Ireland ; and those are now woefully increased. Speak-
ing of the Irish, he says—
" Their lean cattle are sent to all the ports of the western
coast of England. Bristol channel, At- to be fed by English graziers
throughout the whole kingdom ; their fat cattle are slaughtered to vic-
tual the English ships of war and merchant ships, and also for the con-
sumption of the inhabitants of their sea-coast, and of many other parts
of the world ; their butter, tallow, skins, are in great part exported; and
the money arising from all these things sent to the absentees and
others for rent and tithes. Thus the inhabitants of the country are
almost wholly deprived of the produce of the land they inhabit; and
they live, if they can be said to live, on a very small part of it,
by raising potatoes in corners of fields and other small unoccupied
places. And here let me ask the lawyer, civilian, or divine, whether
the inhabitants of a country have not a right to make use of the pro-
duce of it for their subsistence ; and whether any human laws can Justly
prevent them from doing it. " Behold," says Dr. Crump, "an Irish
farmer going forth to his work, barefoot, covered with rags ; behold his
ruinous hovel, built of mud, covered with weeds, and pervious to every
shower that falls, every pinching gale that blows; behold him seated,
after his hard labour, surrounded by naked children, sharing with them
his dry and scanty meal ! Thousands have no hoax at all to live in—
but, as was observed by a member of a great assembly a few winters
ago, " are seen huddling together under bridges, archways, ricks, and
to soy place where a shelter over head can be had."

CITY, ONE O'CLOCE.

The Express from Paris this morning is of importance, by
which it appears, that there has been some religious row in
the above capital ; and had it not been for the great exer-
tions of the National Guards, a great number of the churches
would have been demolished. This is a proof what respect
the French have for religion.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 80i to k for the Ac-
count, opened at the same price, and remain at the above
quotation at present, with little doing. In the foreign
market nothing doing ; and two New York Packets have
arrived off Liverpool.
They write from Calais, of the 10th Febtuary, arrived
there, by the English galliot, Market Maid, 9,000 muskets;
by the French galliot, Union, 10,000 muskets; by the
French brig, La Nereide, 10,985 muskets, all of them
English manufacture ; by the cutter, Sir William Curtis,
from London, arrived 25 barrels, 11 cases, and 95 sacks of
silver, with 44 ingots, valued at two millions of franks.—
And by the Cutter is Charlotte, also from London, 260
sacks of silver, value one million seven hundred thousand
franks; also by various Packet-boats from Dover, 96 cases
of silver, value two millions franks.
Acconnts from Warsaw state that a great quantity of bells
for the differeht churches, as well as a great quantity of cop-
per had arrived at Warsaw, sufficient for the fouuderies to
cast 100 pieces of cannon.
It appears that General Chlopocki was asked to give his
word of honor that he would not quit Warsaw. His answer
was as follows : —" I shall remain here, or leave when I
think proper ; 1 will not give my word of honour." From
that moment sentinels have been placed round his house,
at certain distances.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols have reached, in the course of the morning, ROI 1
for the account, and at present they are 801 to I, with little
business doing. The private letters from Paris state that all
WU again quiet there.
In the foreign market, little or no business going forward.
The Russian Stocks from Hamburg come l per cent. lower,
also the Danish Bonds.

The private letters this day from Paris, speak of secret
associations chiefly influenced and conducted by the clergy,
to bring about a counter revolution, and the policy they
adopt appears to be, to bring back France to a republic ;
consequently the anarchy which would arise from such a
state of things would enable them to throw off the mask,
and openly declare again for the old dynasty. The chief
blow is expected to take place in the South of *France.
A Hamburgh Mail has arrived. The Hamburgh paper
of the 11th, gives dates from Berlin of the 10th, which do
not mention a word of the entrance of the Russians into
Poland.
American Papers have been received at the N. S. A.
Coffee-house to the 19th January ; they do not contain any
news worth giving.

According to the contents of a letter of the highest poli- I
tical character, received from Rio de Janeiro by the last
packet, it is understood that the Marquis de Santo Amaro, the
minister and plenipotentiary who signed the engagements for
the new Terceira loan, and the appropriations for which he
pledged for a given period of years, has been recalled.—
Should this information prove correct, and we have every
reason to think that it will, we ask our countrymen whether
they would not have been prettily hoaxed if they had relied
on the validity of the professions made to get their money
out of their pockets?
Two days ago we were unfortunate enough to have become
the dupes of a designing scoundrel, who addressed to us a
letter, under a name which, we now suppose, like the intelli-
gence it communicated, to have been fictitious, stating that
Priory Park College, in the vicinity of Bath, had been burnt
to the ground. The letter was written so artfully, that we
are not surprised at ourselves fur being deceived.
A deputation of merchants, connected with the Cape Wine
trade, headed by Mr. Borradaile, had an interview with
Viscount Howick, at the Colonial Office yesterday.
Prince George of Cumberland, attended by Sir George
Quentin' left town for Kew yesterday. His Royal High-
nem coursed in the neighbourhood.

PARII,-IPss. lb. .
Yesterday was the anniversary of the assassination of the
Duke de Berri ; and a defies bad been given some days
since by the two earliest Journals, the Gazette and the
Quotedienne, that a mass would be celebrated in the
Church of Saint Germain l'Auxermis, for the repose
of his soul; and that a collection would be made
for the poor, to which the Duchess de Berri has sent
SOO fre. The Quotidienne and the Gazette bordered their

papers with black on the solemn occasion. At eleven
o'clock yesterday, about two hundred persons assembled
at the church, headed bra man carrying the hest of the

Due de Bordeaux, which was afterwards crowned by
the name of Henri Me Fifth ! This having got wind
on the outside of the church, a party rushed in, and
made a scramble for the bust, just at the time a National
Guard, named Valerius, living in the Ruo du Coq, was
taking the oath of allegiance. He, with two other National
Guards, were arrested ; and the crowd having increased very
rapidly, the work of demolition commenced in the Church—
All the windows, chairs, altar, &c. &c. were broken ; and at
six o'clock, the crowd was so great, and soexasperated, that
they made up their minds to pull down the church—a threat
that would certainly have been put into execution, but for the
prompt arrival of the national guard, who assembled in
strong bodies, the drum beating to arms throughout Paris,
and causing the greatest alarm. The archbishop's palace,
for the second time, has been the scene of the greatest de-
vastation; and almost every article of furniture, books,
&c. &c. were destroyed—he having granted permission for
the ceremony. A priest has been arrested, disguised as a
National Guard! The house of Valerius would have been
gutted, had not a strong body of the guard been posted at
each end of the Rue du Coq. At ten o'clock, all was tran-
quil ; but some thousands of the guard paraded the streets
all night. The cross on the top of the church, which was
ornamented with Fleurs de lys, has been trampled under
foot. I have merely time to save the post ; but inclose a
variety of important information.

Yours,

J. L.

INSURRECTION Or CENTRAL ITALY.—AII the letters
received this day from Upper Italy confirm the news of the
insurrectional movement of Bologna and Modena. We are
assured that on the 9th at Milan, the people of Bologna had
established a provisional government. Generals Leccbi and
Fontanelli had put themselves at the head of the national
party, and directed the insurrection, which spreads daily.—
It appears that at Forti the troops were opposed to the insur-
gents, and that there was an effusion of blood on both sides,
during seven hours; when at last victory remained with
the patriots. The city of Ancona has not yet declared ;1
but General Leechi has written to several officers who
served under his orders in Spain, and they sent forth
proclamations to draw the military into the movement. At
Milan, the Governor takes all the measures of precaution
possible ; reinforcements of troops have arrived in the city ;
more are expected ; the castle is put in a state of defence ;
but the day when the people will throw off the yoke, will
show that all these preparations are vain. Since they have
known the means adopted by the people of Paris, it is im-
possible that the Austrians can, with 14,000 men in the
garrison, resist a city where the population raises more
than 140,000 souls.—Journal de Paris.
Letters from Turin announce that they have received news
from Modena. They state, as follows, the events which
have taken place.—The Duke of Modena, having been ap-
prised that there existed a plot to overthrow and attack his
palace, caused the house to be surrounded where the conspira-
tors were assembled : those in the house defended themselves,
and it was found necessary to bring cannon : the house was
forced, and, in the end, forty-seven persons were arrested.
But during the combat, the insurrection sheaved itself in
other points of the city ; which determined the Duke to dis-
patch an officer to the nearest Austrian corps, to direct it to
advance. But the officer, finding the city of Carpi full of
insurrection, was obliged to retrace his steps. The Duke
then decided on quitting the city ; nevertheless, he did not
withdraw his troops, so that the city remains under his
authority. He has gone to Mantua. A letter from Milan,
of Feb. 7, gives another version :—The Grand Duchy of
Modena, is said to be in full insurrection. At Mirandola,
the Gendarmes have been massacred. At Reggio, tbe go-
vernor has been killed. At Modena, the Grand Duke, at
the head of his troops, made head for a long time against the
insurgents, but the insurrection of the country and the neigh-
bouring cities forced him to retreat. He gained the Austrian
territory, and arrived yesterday at Padua (the letters from
Turin say Mantua). The letters both from Turin and Milan
agree that the revolution of Bologna has been effected
without the effusion of blood. The one say that the Able-
gate put himself at the head of the Provisionary Government,
the other that after having at first consented, he retired to
Florence.— Courtier Francais. _ _ _

We are assured that the news received this morning
from Italy, announce that the Duke of Modena, after a des-
perate resistance, during three days, was obliged to quit the
city, and has retired with his family to Mantua. A provi-
sionary government has been organized at Modena.—
Journal des Debats.

Extract of a letter from Parma, of the 4th of February,
at four o'clock in the evening :—A foreigner who arrived
this moment from Reggio, brings word that the Duke of
Modena caused to be arrested this day an Italian patriot, a
man who enjoyed at Reggio a great popularity. But the
young men of the city assembled on the instant, and bay-
ing called the people to their assistance, the prisoner was
set at liberty, and the troops disarmed. The inhabi-
tants of Reggio then sent to inform the Duke, that if
'he sought to make new arrestations, the soldiers would
be slaughtered. In consequence of these troubles, the
Duke of Modena has condemned to exile General
Fontanelli, ex-minister of war of the kingdom of Italy,
under Napoleon, and General Zuccbi, known by the
services which he has rendered to the French army in the
retreat from Leipsic. It is believed that to-morrow will be
signalised by events of high importance.
We received this day at Paris letters from Milan up to the
date of the 7th Feb. These letters only announce that tra-
gical events have taken place at Modena ; but they bring
no precise details. The correspondence of Italy is inter-
cepted, with the greatest care, in all the kingdom of Venetian
Lombardy, by the Austrian police.—Meuager des Chum-
bees.
BAVARIA.

lIISURRICTIOW OP BCV4lllllll.—Ourcorrespondent from
Frankfort informs us, under the date of the 10th, that Bavaria
is in combustion, and that the King had quitted Munich.
He had not time to acquaint us with particulars. His
Majesty had recently restored an Ordonnance on the subject
of the Press, which caused great discontent ; but that which
above all irritated public opinion, is the application of a para-
graph of the Ordonnance upon the States, which authorises
the King to annul the election of a certain number of mesa•
ben. This paragraph having been applied to one usual'
Bohn, who was elected by a very great majority, the in-
habitants of Wnrsboarg have addressed to his majesty on this
subject, as energetic petition. This circumstance, the met-

. .