Star.
London, England, 1830-10-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The William Donald. from Pictou, and the Kingston, from Arch.
Alga, have arrived at Great Orm's Head.

the
Tyne, Robinson, from Work and Swansea, was wrecked on
the 27th inst. on the Sker Sand.
The Sarah, Ruome, from London to St. Andrew's, N.B. foundered
C. the 19th inst. in long. 40. Crew saved.
1)1". Occ. 29. Arrived the Thames, from Philadelphia ; Hebe,
Straughan; Brunswick. Blake; and Europe, —, from Quebec;
Lalarnaue, Venice, and Breeze, Chappill, from Ireland.
Cowes, Oct. 29.—Arrived the Scotia, Currie, and New York,
—Zfrum Monte Video.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 28.--Arrived the Alebymist, Wills, from Pug-
wash.
LITIIIPOOL, OCT. 28. Arrived the Juno, Thompson, from Aricati;
Swan, Snell, from New Wean ; John Marsh, Lucas, and Huntley,
Hannah. from Quebec ; Hannah, Newby, and Brothers, Tweed, from
Richebucto; Sybille, Harper, from Miramiehl ; Endeavour, —,
trout Smyrna ; William IV. Foster, from Ariehat; William IV.
Johnson, from Archangel; and Mansfield, Martin, from St. P -
burgh.

Ceres, Ocv. 28.--Arrived the F.agle, Scott, from St. Petenburgb ;
ond.Ducheu of Portland, from Archangel.
Cone, Om U.—Arrived the Rocket, Norman, from Jamaica;
nkvar, Fenwick, from Quebec; and Odessa, Paulson, from Smyrna.
Dustin, Oce. 47.—Arrived the Ann, Pascoe, from St. Petersburg's.
Prina. Leopold has left Marlborough-house for Clare..
vUt.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

RAVONNF OCT 25.

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.

Mina is still at Lessee. He has caused the corps of Valdes to oc-
cupy his tear at Vera. It is expected that either he or the royal troops
will commence offensive operations.
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EXPEDITION INTO SPAIN, UNDER COLONEL BAIGES.
BAYONNE, Ocr. 24.
This officer has performed, with complete success, the reconnoitering
mission which he had been directed to make by General Milano, and
in conjunction with Figueras. The triple object of this operation was
first to procure some pecuniary assistance, to sound the state of public
opinion, and to ascertain the strength of the force kept up in this
quarter, by the Count WEspagna. The terror which this person
has spread through Catalonia, and the severity of the orders issued to
the authorities and others to absent themselves at the approach of the
Constitutionalists, have prevented the promises of pecuniary aid from
the interior being carried into effect, and as had been hell out to the
Catalonian Junta. With respect to th 2 sentiments of the inhabitants
they exceed any thing that could be expected in favour of liberty.l
As soon as tile Constitutional forces shall have regularly penetrated
into the country. and that the inhabitants shall be protected against
the fury of the Verres of Catalonia, they will range themselves in
large bodies under the liberating standard. Col. Beiges has adirsnefni
six leagues into the interior of the country, and has reconnoitered the
enemy's forces. They amounted to 700 men. The Colonel, on this
occasion, had with bins no more than 100 foot soldiers and 10 horse-
men ; he, however, had the boldness to stop in front of the
enemy, and having eyed them with sang froid, and taken a military coup
d'eril, he selected, for the course of his retreat, a direction in which he
could judge of the nature of the ground, and ensure him an advantage
over an enemy seven times superior in number to his force. In point of
fact he sustained, during his retreat, the enemy's fire for eight hours,
and regained the frontiers of France without having more than one man
wranuled. The Colonel has established a depot for the reviews upon
the line of demarkation.

PRIVATE CORIESPONDENCE OF 4' THE REVOLUTION."
VERA.

October 21, at Eight o'clock in the Morning—The General in Chief
left Bayonne on the 18th, at ten o'clock in the evening. On reaching
the frontiers he stopped to organize his men, and immtdiately attacked
a party of 300 carabineers who occupied the fort,and who took to flight.

HEIGHTS BETWEEN VERA AND LESACA.

Oct. 21, at Nine o'Clock in the Morning.—The earabineen fled in
such confusion that Mina could not come up to them. Some, however,
Dave joined him, and, by all accounts, the rest sill soon follow their
example.

HEIGHTS ABOVE LESACA.

Oct. 21, at Three o'Clock:,p. m.—General Mina is pleased with the
turn things are taking. He forwarded proclamations to the Alcade of
Les.tca, who returned him a satisfactory reply. The village of Goizueta
bent him also a deputation. The presence of Nina excites every where
the reost lively enthusiasm.

PARIS, OCT. 27.—There is no news, but some expectation of a stir
from the meditated changes in the ministry. '1 he recal of General
Clause! from his command in Africa has given rise to much conjecture,
particularly as his conduct since he reached Algiers has been lauded by
the journals, and, it is said, highly approved by government. He is a
man of very considerable talents, independently of those 1w has profes-
sionally displayed in the north of Cosmo, and is said, by persons who
ought to be well informed, to be recalled in order to give him a post in
which his abilities will be more available for the public service. You
will observe that the pension list is at length entanide. One of the ex-
tinctions—that of the pension granted to Madame Peyronnet—would
appear to be unnecessarily precipitate. Perhaps the Keeper of the
Seals is cruel only to be kind. This act of severity towards his nearest
connections may beget some pity for the unfortunate ex-Minister.
The prisoners at Vincennes remain as usual. The Commission
charged with the preparation for their trial is actively engaged, and
have already made much progress in their task. The transfer of the
prisoners from Vincennes to the Petit Luxembourg will take place on
the lath November, which indicates pretty nearly the period at which
the proceedings will commence. When they will terminate no one can
pretend to say, for the preliminary business—the questions that will be
raised on points of form and law—will probably occupy a very long
time. Among the curious coincidences connected with this affair will
be that which you may have seen alluded to in some of the Paris Jour-
nals, respecting M. Avoca', who is selected for the command of the
National Guards, who are to do duty at the Luxembourg pending the
trial. He is by trade a tanner, is Lieut.-Colonel of one of the Legions
of the Garde Nationale of Paris, and has himself been twice tried for
high treason, and condemned to death—once by the very Chamber of ,
' Peers the safety and preservation of which will be committed to him on
this most important occasion.*
The affairs of Belgium begin, it is said, to cause some uneasiness to
the French Ministers. Happily for them, late elections have made
little alteration in their position in the Chamber, and few, if any, of'!
what may be termed Radicals have been returned, or you would have
found the question of non-interference loudly debated in the Chamber of
Deputies. The neutrality of France on the Belgic question must be
heart-rending to her Government, but matters must take their course.—
A pamphlet has just appeared, which has made some noise, in which the
writer discusses the propriety of an immediate adoption of Belgium by
France, and declares that no other course can be pursued consistently
with reference to her safety or her honour.
BOURSE, Half-past Four.—The French Funds suffered to-day from
the continued uncertainty respecting the new formation of th, Ministry.
Odillon Barren is, I am positively assured, to have a seat in the Coun-
cil, but whether as Minister of the Interior, or without a portefeuille,
is ant yet determined. M. Bignon is to replace the Due de Broglie iu
the Ministry of Public Worship. The Reviles Perpeluelles have im-
proved, owing to the unfavourable nature of the news from Spain.—
Letter in the Ilerald.

From the Massager dcs Cham&res dated Thursday, Oct. 28.
PARIS, OCT. 27.
The Monisear of this morning does not yet contain the names of the
Ministers who are to succeed 3lessrs. Guizot and de Broglie, if those
two statesmen should persist in their offer of resignation. It was also
said that Marshal lieranl would retire, This report seems to have no
longer any credit attached to it. It is affirmed, besides, that there
would be no Under-Secretaries of State. The fact is, that Gen. Haxo
has not been appointed to that office in the War Department, as was
for a moment asserted. As for Gen. Geulit St. Alphonse, who was
thought to be succeeded by Gen. Filet, he retains his functions. The
Moatiewr confirms to-day, by the publication of an ordinance of his
Majesty, countersigned by Count Mole, the nomination of Count Flo-
Timone de Latour-Alauboug to the post of Ambassador to his Majesty
the Ring of the Two Sicilia.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARI-, OCT. 27.—Five per Cents. 94f. 90c.
80e. 85c. 80c. 85c. 80e. 75e. 80c.; Four per Cents. 81f. 50c ; Three
per Cents. 84f. 25c. 20c. 10e. loc. 10e. ; Rank Stock, 1,680 f.; Rente
de Naples, 64f. 50e. 55c. 50c. 45c.: Rente d'Espagne, 19111 19 in 19
191; Royal Spanish Loan, 47 461; Rente Perpetuelle d'iaipagne, 38 ;
Harlan Loan, 330 f. 325 f. Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 30c.;
three months, 25f. 15c.—Costrs Authrniique.

• This will appear strange to some British readers. The Chamber
of Peers is susceptible of being called upon to act as a Court of As-
sin (as in the case above alluded to) to give eclat to s trial for high
treason.

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

CIiZONICLE.—We have already said, that we do not believe that in
as far as regards food, raiment, and lodging, the labouring classes are
worse off than we are. But the rest of the picture of our Kentish Con-
temporary is drawn after the life. Never was a country to pestered with
canting as England has been pestered. In the times of the Puritans,
the canters, sho would
" Hang a cat on Monday.
For catching a mouse on Sunday,"
were a small minority. But hypocrisy has long been taken under the
protection of the Higher Power,. The Church of England Clergy are no
longer the learned men they used to beAut have dwindled down to psalm.
singers ; and as they chiefly compose the Unpaid Magistracy, they are in.
cessant in their endeavours to worry and harass the people. The elision-
tent in a neighbourhood may always be pretty accurately calculated from'
the number of resident Magistrates. To do the higher Aristocracy justicee
the people do not complain so much of them as of the busy meddling
Parsons, and .unall fry of Magistracy, who seek to distinguish them-
selves by their zeal in givii g effect to laws which, in 09 cases out of a
hundred, are so foolish and vexatious, as to be only tolerable when al-
lowed to sleep. There are many countries in which the means of phy.
sical enjoyment are less abundant than in Englind ; but there is not
one country in Europe—not one—where the social ties have been so vio
lently severed as in England. The accursed distinctions which run
through English society teach men to hate, envy,and despise each other,
and repress the characters of life. There is something excessively
gloomy in the idea of living under the same roof with human beings
who care neither for your weal nor your woe—to whom your elevation
or your ruin are alike objects of indifference.

Pose.—From some of the parties who in the last Parliament were
ranged in opposition to his Majesty's Government, we aonfidently rely
upon this forbearance. In certain !circumstances, indeed, which it is
not unreasonable to anticipate, we feel persuaded that they will show
more than forbearance ; that they will not only refrain from offering
any obstruction to Government, but that they will strengthen
and support it with all the seal that patriotism can in-
sPire- With regard both to the Tory division of the former Oppo-
sition and to that which has usually been denominated the Canning
party in Parliament, this expectation may be fairly cherished; for al-
though both have displayed oceasionally much wrong.beadedness, much
needless and misapplied resentment and ill.temper, neither we believe

liave yet stria• to so dcgtaded a point in public estimation, that the En-
lion is at all prepar, d to witness in their persons so deplorable and dis-
gusting a tp,tc,a,:c al that of Ilritish politicians availing themselves of
circumstances of in:hlic difficulty or danger, and of wilfully increasing
both, for the pr..nrotion of party purposes or the gratification of factious
revenge.

llmums —The occumnee.s which continue to tnice place in parts of
Kent, are of a miter, to excite much uneasiness in the public mind;
and if it turns out, as we too much fear to be the cue, that the le-
nity which has been shown to the convicted perpetrators of the out.
rages in qttesdo:, has ti.en but thrown away upon them and their
associates, there remains but one alternative, via. that the law should
stretch out its stern :mi., and put down, by punishment, that which]
mercy has tailed to do. But when we call upon the laws to vin. I
dicate themselves, and to rescue the community front danger,
and theinstives trim an imputation of being too weak to pro-
tect the persona and property of the King's subjects front lawless pm-
ceedings, sucit as those which we allude to, we are not the less anxious
that the origin and the motives of such an anomalous state of things
should be diligently, temperately, aed thoroughly investigated, and toe
wrongs, it' there he any, watch give rise to them, redressed. Lord
Bacon has laid down the maxim, that the surest way to prevent se_
ditions is " to take away the matter of them ; " and in this case, how.
ever lawless and enjust;fiable these outrages are, they must, we suspect,
have a cause, which cantos ioo soon and too effectually he sought out,
and, if possible, I-medic:at.

Ttmea.—This, (speaking of the Kent intelligence,) will be called
by every bud) an unnatural and frightful aspect of adhirs, in an agri-
cultural minim.: ity like that of the county referred to. Frightful in-
deed it is, but no: new ithuatural, inasmuch as mime is the inevitable
consequence of desperation—of that horrible feeling which has been pro.
duced amongst a large proportion of the labourers of England, by a long
course of improvidence and abuse of power in those at whose mercy
it has been the policy or :lc eessity of the British Government and
Parliament to place them. The tendencies of the national condition
for the Inst half century have been, to make the rich nun tidier,
anti the poet. man miserably poorer, than at any well-authenticated pe-
riod of our moat:tit history. The rich man of the prevent day can corn.
mond a much greater atnonnt of the marketable guilts of life than Ins
pretleces,cr of fifty yams back ; and rich men, besides, have become
lucre numerous that: fortnerly. The humble labourer, on the other hand,
has experleinied a hill of wages, and a progressive loss of comforts, with.
out example in the records of English privation. His v eckly wages
will not at this moment buy him much more than half the qua:,
tity of corn which, in the cottage of his grandfather, was the
consumption of the week. With the positive increase of wealth
and poverty, not only has been widened the distance between the
two extremes of society, but the sympathy between all who poiesess
something, and all who passess no properly but their labour, tuns sal.
sibly and mournfully diminished. Instead of being fairly fused and in-
corporated, the people of this United Kingdom may now be said to lie
in strata one above the other, and the pressure of the superincumbent
masses on the lowest has become altogether intolerable. When politi-
cians, therefore, speak of a necessity for "putting down" the disturbers of
the public peace, and for augmenting in every way the coercive power
of laws and magistrates, and still further nianucliag the poor, they but
propose a dreadful aggravation of the very principle which has done
the mischief. The '•disturbers" are already too far down. Instead
of regarding those above them with hope, or gratitude, or affection,
he scowls at every man but a pauper like himself' with fee
rocious hathd, and fosters no appetite but for revenge. A tern.
ble proof of this revoked spirit has been exhibited throughout
the recent conflagrations in Kent. it is asserted posiuvely,
that although numbers—in some eases hundreds —of the elms of la-
bourers were looking on at the destruction of stacks and buildings,
not a man of them would lend Isis hand to extinguish the flames ;
but all stood by, with an appearance of apathy, or of savage exultation
and triumph. He must be a short-sighted and shallow mortal who
can babble about the wickedness or danger of such a state of mind
among the agricultural labourers, and not at the same time allow the
profligate cause of the evil—the heartlessness or carelessness of their rich
employers.