Star.
London, England, 1831-02-22 00:00:00

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND O'GORMAN MAHON.

Lord Althorp, on the part of Sir James Graham, and
Major Macnamara, on the part of O'Gorman Mahon, meet
and agree to the following statement:
" Major Macnamara called yesterday on Sir James Graham, when
he told Sir James that he came in courtsey to ask whether, in using the
word demagogues,' he had intended to allude to O'Gorman illabon ?
Sir James, in answer, said that at the moment he used the word,
O'Gorman Mahon was not in his contemplation : he was sitting behind
him, and he did not see him, or thick of him at all.
"Upon Major Dlacnamsra asking Sir James if he would make this
declaration in the House of Commons, Sir James said, before he agreed
to that, he must consult a friend, to whom he would refer Major
Macnamara.

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"He accordingly consulted Lord Althorp, and it is the opinion
of Lord Althorp that he ought to make it.
" And 11 is the opinion of Major Macnatnara that such a declaration
in the House of Commons ought to be sathfaetory to O'Honnan klalsou
" A LTHORP.

London, Feb. 10-

" W. N. lIIACNAMARA."

Prince Leopold left the Palace at Brighton yesterday
morning, for his residence at Claremont.
The Duchess of Cumberland visited the Duchess of Glo-
cester yesterday.
A conference on the affairs of Belgium was held by the
Representatives of the Great Powers yesterday afternoon, at
the Foreign 011 ice, which was attended by the French, Aus-
trian, and Russian Ambassadors, the Prussian Minister, the
Baron de Wessenburg, and Viscount Palmerston.
A Deputation from Manchester attended yesterday at the
office of the Board of Trade, and had a conference with the
President.

Viscount Goderich visited Earl Grey yesterday at the
Treasury.
The Mexican Minister transacted business yesterday at the
office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The French ambassador received despatches yesterday
from bis government.

A deputation of the manufacturers of printed calicoes had
an interview with the, Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day at the Treasury,
The King and Queen will visit Drury-lane Theatre this
evening, and in one fortnight after, Covent-garden. About
the middle of March their Majesties will go in state to the
i King's Theatre.

SPIRIT OP THE JOURNALS.
Tritzs.—ln the course ofhis speech on Friday, the Minister of the
Interior read, in the Chamber, a document which he seemed to consider
as a letter of instructions from the curt of Holyrood.house to their
partisans in Paris, exciting the latter to continue the agitation, and
suggesting the means of doing it with the greatest sucenss. That lever
(the substance of which was given in the Star some days since).
desires a party or parties unkewn to excite to war on the iron.
tiers—to create distrust in the interior—to widen the breach between
the capital and the ptovirces,—to propagate falsehood respecting the
intentions of the King,—in short, to keep alive discontent, exasperate
faction, and to promote anarchy, that the people may be induced to re-
gret the expulsion of Charles X. and as a means of security to recall
his grandson Henry V. with the white flag. This plan is extremely
plausible, and on that account its adoption by the Royalists may
be more easily believed. If the Bourbons could accomplish their ob-
ject by creating confusion, chaos itself would be a scene of order
compared with the anarchy which they would attempt to produce.--
When we hear of letters directing the royalists to push on the republi-
can party, in order to create confusion by which the exiled family shay
profit, we ate tempted to ask who are to be the agents and who the
dupes of such manoeuvre? It is evident that a Carlist could not in
his own name canvass the fauxbourgs for vagabonds to pull down
crosses and fintr-de-iis; and it is as evident that these ruffians did
not require instigation. It will be remembered that in the first
revolution the excesses of the Paris populace were ascribed
to the gold of 'itt, as the sacrilegious violence of the late mobs
are attributed by the Minister of the Interior to the instructions of
the ex King. We believe that the desperate faction attached to the fur •
tunes of the young Duke of Bordeaux would perpetrate any enomilty,
however injurious to their country, to recover their lost power ; but their
means must be better adapted to their object than in these instructions.
It is not imposible that a mystification has been practised on the Mini--
ter of the Interior on the present occasion, as upon M. Persil and N.
Lafitte during the troubles of December.
HERALD.—In the sitting of the 18th the Minister of the Interior
entered into an elaborate defence of his conduct, which he justified by
showing that the mere announcement of a religious ceremory at the cha.
pel of St. Germain l'Auxerrois would not have justified him in filling the
church with the police, and that, when the danger became imminent, lie
was not wanting in zeal or vigour in repressing it. He asked,--why
did not the Prefect of the Seine interfere ? M. Oilillon Barrot sharply
replied, that it was not his business, that he had received no instruc-
tions, and that he believed the government had no wish to consult him.
or, really, to put down the disturbances. M. Montalivet, upon this, ch.,.
, claimed Carlistn, and again justified himself. In the course of the dis-
cussion he read a letter supposed to have been issued from Holyrood
House, containing instructions for the conduct of the partisans of the
exiled family, enjoining them to " agitate" incessantly.—
These sundry differences in the Government, have led to a con-
fident belief of an immediate change of Ministers ; and some con.
sidemble disappointment was expressed that the Moiailcur did
. not contain the new appointments on Saturday morning. The effect of
the change, it is said, will be to replace M. 31ontalivet, by AI. °Alton
Barrot, in the Ministry of the Interior, and M. Baude, as Nlinister of
Police, by M. Real. The attack upon M. Dupin's house on Tuesday
by the mob is thought :to be connected with the share which that De.
' puty had in procuring the dismissal of General Lafayette from the
Command.in-Chief of the National Guard, and the immediate return
of the veteran to his former post. The adoption of a more liberal elec.
tion law, and the dissolution of the Chamber, are expected as the chief
fruits of the late revolution.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Mums Altman Tuts DAV.—Dublin. I ; Waterford, I ; France. I.
Fes. iii.—Wlod N.W. moderate.--The Hon. Company's
ships Vansittart and Reptiles are reported to have passed the Downs
last evening. Arrived from the River, the Frinsbury, Daum, for the
South Seas; Caledonia, —, for Trinidad; and America, Wudlow,
for St. Andero.

PORTSMOUTH, Frs. 41.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived from Woolwich.
the Hope transport. Sailed his Majesty's ship Gannett. for Bermuda,
and Argyle, &seen, for Plymouth and New South Wales.
PLYMOUTH, Fn. 20.—Wind N.
Powwows, Fa. SO.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrlved the
Falcon, from Morrell, Brown, from Trieste; Columbus,
Janssen. from Smyrna, leaky, rudder damaged, &c. Sailed the Ca-
lypso packet, for Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres.
Doves, Fez 21.—Arrived off the port. the Tyro, Tritton, from
Terceira.

Cowes, Fn. 21.—Arrived the George Canning, Jackson, from the
Mauritius, very leaky. rudder damaged, loss of bulwarks, &c.
Coax, Fem. 18.—Arched the Otion, Fraser, from Bahia, and John
and Henry,,—from Messina.

The Bliney, Riches, from Ipswieh to Liverpool, got in contact with
the Colombia, Delano, from New York, on Sunday night, a Hastings,
and sunk.

The Mary, Shields. from Tralee to Liverpool, was on shore at
Lochindabl 14th inst. and would be obliged to discharge.
The Amelia, Pepperell, from St. Michael's, bas arrived at Penzance
leaky, having struck the Dodman Point.

PROGRESS OE 1.

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TRY FIRES.

On Tuesday night last, a large hurdle pile at Andover
was destroy ed; and on the same night a farm at Cru%
Easton was burnt, and property to the amount of 3001.
destroyed.

During the night of Saturday last, a fire broke out in the
farm-yard of Mr. William Halcombe, of Hungerford, which
entirely destroyed the farm-buildings, stock, and a cottage
house. The loss is very great.
A third visitation of incendiarism has taken place in the
palish of Farebam, in the destruction of a barley rick be-
longing to Mr. Godwin, of East Cams.
At half-past three o'cleck on Tuesday morning, Colonel
Hawker's farm, near Andover, was discovered to be on fire,
and it was not completely subdued till four in the afternoon ;
in the course of which time property to the amount of eight
hundred pounds was reduced to ashes, including barns, gra-
naries, hay-ricks, implements, &c. The horses were fortu-
nately saved, but a large quantity of poultry was burnt alive.
It was the act of an incendiary.
Monday night last, between the hours of twelve and one,
a fire broke out in a barn in the possession of Mr. Vidler,
of Pcpbaro, which consumed three barns, an out-house, two
wheat ricks, 0110 barley and one bean rick, and a mow full
of clover hay, besides a quantity of wheat and barley ready
'threshed. The true cause of the fire has not been ascer-
tained, some thinking that it was occasioned by some hot
lime that was deposited in the out-house, whilst others affirm
it was the act of an incendiary. All the poultry about the
farm yard was also burnt.

About one o'clock on Sunday morning, an incendiary
fire was discovered in the rick-yard of Mr. Deane. at Stoke
Row, near Henley, which consumed an oat-rick of about GO
quarters and one of hay about 30 tons. The property uas
insured in the British Fire-office.—Reading Mercury,
Tuesday night, a very alarming fire broke out in the ware-
house of the flour and bread concern (immediately behind the
shop) in the Horse Fair, and close adjoining one side of the
Upper Arcade, Bristol. It was discovered in the bake-
house, on o?ening the door of which the flames burst forth in
a large column, reel ignited an immense faggot pile, wi.ich
burnt with great rapidity. The floor of a room, in which
there were from three hundred to four hundred sacks of
flour, soon gave way, and the flame was in some measure
stifled, and its further rrogress arrested.
Sunday night, a fire was discovered on the property of
Mr. Wilkins, near Milton Abbas, which entirely con-
sumed the house and some outbuildings ; and it was with
the greatest difficulty that an extensive barn, containing
a large quantity of corn, was preserved. The building was
evidently set on fire in two places, and when first discoveled,
the fire was 'aging on both sides of the roof.
A short time since, a barn upon the farm in the occupa-
tion of Nlr. Maynard, at Reigate, was totally destroyed by
fire. Mr. Maynard filled some parochial office, and had
been applied to by a pauper for money on the evening of the
CJllflagration. This had been refused; and in little more
than an hour afterwards the barn was discovered to be in
flames, which consumed the building, as well as the stock .
of grain which it contained. The latter only was insured.
The pauper was taken up and examined, but no proof was
obtained that lie had been the destroyer of the property.

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It appears by a Parliamentary paper, just published, that
the total number of houses assessed to the inhabited house-
tax in all the counties of Great Britain, in the year ending
the sth of April, 1830, was 370,786. The total number for
London, Middlesex, and Westminster, was 116,279. The
total amount of rental for all the counties was 11,155,1091.
—ln the city of London, 771,6141. In Westminster,
1,200,9671.