Star.
London, England, 1831-07-01 00:00:00

MOLASSES.

Mr. P. THOMSON moved for leave to have a committee
appointed to inquire into the expediency of admitting me.
lasses into breweries and distilleries.

Captain MA ITLA ND said, as far as the interests of
Scotland were concerned he should watch with much sus.
picion the progress of any measure, which had for its end
the introduction of molasses into the distilleries of that
country.
Sir G. CLERIC deprecated the introduction of such a
motion at that late hour ; lie should oppose the measure.
Whilst the barley of this country was taxed so heavily, such
a step could net be taken without the greatest injustice.
Mr. KEITH DOUGLAS supported the measure.
Mr. FRANKLAND LEWIS could see no valid objec-
tion to the appointment of the committee; but he called
upon the noble lord (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), to
state what were the intentions of his Majesty's ministers in
respect to the West India proprietors, by introducing the
present measure.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
proposition of the hon. gent. was an extraordinary one to be
brought forward at the ',resent moment. He was certain
that, if the measure was considered to be injurious to the
Wort India proprietors it would not have been brought for.
ward
_ _ _

After some remarks from Mr. BENNETT, Mr. CQaTEi•,
Eir R. HARTY, &C.
Mr. P. THOMSON replied that all that had passed had
shown the correctness of the course he had pursued, in mt
entering into details; they were fit matters for the Corn.
mittee.

Tice motion w•u agreed to, and the Committee afterwards
pointed.

REFORM 'ILL (IRELAND).

Mr. STANLEY moved for leave to bring in the Reform
Bill for Ireland, to meet the understanding that the Scotch
and Irish Bills should, before the English Bill was discus.
sed, be before the house. Some alterations bad taken place.
The machinery regarding registration was not to be similar
to that of England ; that found in Ireland would be applied.
The term of years which was to give the right of voting se
be altered from twenty-one to nineteen years; if rent and fine
were 801. that should be deemed equal to a rent of SOL It
was a still further extension of the elective franchise. The
piineiple of the Bill was not altered.
Mr. O'CONNELL world not allow this stage to pass
without protesting against the contrast between Ireland ant
Mand, as made by this bill.
otion agreed to, after some explanatory remarks from
Mr. SHELL.—The bill was afterwards brought in ; to be
read a second time on Monday sennight.:
Lord ALTHORP obtained leave to renew his game law
bill

Mr. STANLEY moved, in a committee, • " grant" of
50,000 L for the relief of Ireland. Withdrawn, after Dlr.
HOME complained of this tax, or grant, having been pro.
posed without notice.
Exchequer Bills to the amount of 500,0001. were voted
to be advanced by way of loan for public works in Ireland.
The remaining orders of the day having been disposed of,
the House adjoutned at a Quarter-put Three o'Clock.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
PARIS, Jaya 29.
Si n,--I have little to add to the communication
I made to you yesterday. The minds of the
Parisians are still in a feverish state respecting
the questions which are at present agitating, and
the uncertainty which still prevails upon the grand
question of peace or war. This excitement gives
rise to the most absurd rumours which are set
afloat by the speculators on 'Change, in order to
act upon the funds in a way to insure profit. Yes-
terday we had reports of the positive refusal of
Prince Leopold—that hostilities would be com-
menced immediately—that Marshal Soult had re-
turned to Paris, and was to be made President of
the Council, in consequence of the resignation of
M. Casimir Perier.
All these rumours bad the desired effect. A
fall of two francs took place, and realised some
profit to two speculators, who had sold largely for
account. It is not, however, improbable, that the
present political situation might have something to
do with such a marked decline. 1 he movement
was considered sufficiently serious for the Messager
to publish a second edition with the following no-
tice : " Assurances, of which it is impossible to
doubt the authenticity, enable us to affirm that
the reports spread on 'Change this day, have
no foundation whatever. Every thing, on
the contrary, proves that the relations of good
friendship with the foreign powers have experienced
no interruption ; and the resignation of the Presi-
dent of the Council is no more true, than the pre-
tended misunderstanding which has taken place
between some other Members of the Cabinet."
This announcement of the Ministerial Journal,
however, has not tended much to calm the
restless spirit which exists. All think that some-
thing is hatching, and look forward with
great anxiety to the return of the King
to Paris. I know from the best authority
that war is now deemed inevitable—even in the Ca-
binet of the Minister for Foreign Affairs ; and
once the spark is lighted, Heaven knows where er
how it will be extinguished !
The feeling in the army towards Belgium s
such, that in case her territory is invaded, the sol-
diers have sworn to take the initiative into their own
bands, and march to her relief. The month of
July, 1831, will be like the month of July.
1830—a busy and eventful month for France.
On the 14th it is confidently stated that the tree
of liberty will be raised on the site of the Bastille;
and that it will be simultaneously raised through-
out France, at the anniversary of the revolution.
The caricatures, even, begin to have some pungency
in them, which did not appear till very recently.
There was one, a few days ago, with which the
Attorney-General interfered, representing Louts
PHILIPP!, as the cup-and-ball, slight-of-hand
conjuror. causing liberty to disappear with a little
powder of non-intervention ! Now, he is e
hibited as the hero of a tragedy, which has lately
been played in Paris ; wherein, in the last scene, the
hero stabs the heroine, exclaiming—" She resisted

nte, and 1 assassinated her!" LOUIS PHILIPPE
is represented with Liberty in his arms, whom he
has just stabbed, and makes that exclamation from
the tragedy, whilst the National Guards are keep-
ing back the enraged Parisians. Very likely M.
Peril will cast his eyes upon this ere long.
I inclose you the Journals; and will forward
you, by next Estufette, all the passing events of
the day. Meantime I remain,
Yours, &c. J. L.

EXCLUSIVE EXTRACTS.

M. C. Perier, Sou of the President of the Conn-
A, arrived this dal- at Pnris, at six o'clock in the
.?vening, from London, bringing intelligence which
t causes us to foresee the speedy conclusion of the
affairs of Belgium. The Belgium deputation were
to quit London for Brussels, at the same time
charged to report to the Congress the conditions,
which, if they are agreed to by the Congress, as
it is thought they will be, there will be no more
difficulty encountered on the part of Prince Leopold,
nor on that of the conferrence of London.—Mo-
T niteur.

We are in truth wearied of contradicting the
false assertions, the absurd news which is continu-
ally spread and accredited. It was not without
hope of preventing fresh illusions, that we have up
to this day multiplied contradictions ; it was to pre •
serve some interests from becoming dupes. We
would still fortify them against so many deceptions,
which the experience of every day should render
unnecessary.—Mon;teidr.
Mayence, June 14th,—The Duchess of Berry
arrived here on the 22nd, in the most strict incog-
nito, under the name of Countess de Sagana. Her
Royal Highness descended at the Inn named Ville
de Paris. This Princess left on the morning of the
24th to go to Manheim. We expect the Duke of
Angoulerne to day, accompanied by the Duke of
Blacas. They will also lodge at the Vile de Paris.
—Gazette de Mayence.
France and England present at this moment to
the world the rare spectacle of a union, of which
the last at least has reason to congratulate herself.
Thanks to the obsequious pusillanimity of our
Cabinet, the arbitrations of all the great questions
raised by the revolution of July is fallen, from the
hands of France, into those of her most ancient
rival. It is no longer at Paris, the veritable me-
tropolis of liberalism, it is at London, the arsenal
and factory of all the coalitions of despots, that
are now determined the interests of liberty. It is
true that the representative of our citizen royalty
is admitted at these conventicler of ancient mo-
narchies ; but it is to condemn it to the same
character which it received the order from the resto-
ration to fulfil at the Congress of Verona ; it is to
dishonour once more the French bayonets, by
making them serve, in 1831, against Belgian li-
berty, as in 1823 against Spanish liberty. Too con-
fident Belgium, which held out her arms to us de-
manding a King, was it then not sufficient to re-
pulse you as an importunate and suspected beggar?
Was it necessary to abandon you to the homicidal
embraces of an Englishman ? Those provinces so
industrious, so fruitful, which twice were offered
voluntarily to France ; that line of fortresses raised
at our expense against us, at only six days journey
from our capital ; those four millions of men,
to speak better, of fellow citizens and of brothers,
an acquisition which the France of Louis XIV. did
not think too dearly purchased by the blood of fifty
thousand brave soldiers, have all been sacrificed
to the demands of Russia and the precarious alli-
ance of the English ! And we have re-conquered
the tri-coloured flag ! and old Soult is at the head
of 500,000 French soldiers ! In a few days, we
shall know what part the Belgians will take, and in
as few weeks, perhaps, what support we may expect
from the friendship so costly of Great Britain. When
the question of Portugal shall be resolved in the same
interest as the Belgium question ; when the ferment
of discord which agitates the rest of Europe shall at
last have brought on the inevitable crisis, can we
at least, for the price of so much denial and humi-
lity, count upon the active sympathy of our new
ally ? When the moment arrives of choosing be-
tween Austria and France, will England not place
against her natural alliance with the first, her in-
veterate jealousy against the maritime preponde-
rance and industry of the second ? After having
acquired, without a shot being fired, that which she
could scarcely have hoped for in the most fortunate
war ; will it not be sufficient for her, in case of
need, to remain neutral to guard against it ?—Le
National.

The courier from Saint Petersburgb, whose ar-
rival at Paris we announced yesterday, quitted the
Russian capital op the 15th of the month, and
embarked upon the steam-boat for Lubeck, where
he landed in the evening of the 19th. After a
quarantine of two days, he set off for Paris. There
were on board the steam-boat 73 passengers, of
which several were cabinet couriers. On their de-
parture from St. Petersburgh, the news of the
death of Marshal Diebitsch was not yet known.
The communications of that capital with the Rus-
sian army in Poland are very much abated by the
measures of quarantine. These measures, we are
assured,are so severe, that now it does not take less
than 60 days to go from Riga to St. Petershurgh.
As to the news which this courier has brought to
the Government, it finds but little credit with per-
sons who know the manner in which the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh views the events of Poland and
the democratic spirit which at this moment animates
the Diet of Warsaw : these persons know, and M.
Pozzo di Borgo at Paris has not ceased to repeat it,
especially since the fall pronounced by the Diet, that
an arrangement between Russia and Poland, such
as that which at Paris, they still flatter themselves
with managing, has become impossible. When
by the progress of the insurrections of Lithuania,
of Volliynia, and the other Polish-Russian pro-
vinces, the struggle with Poland shall become for
the empire of the Czar a question of existence,
then alone the Emperor Nicholas will consent to
treat ; but, as long as there remains to the Russians
he least hope of rendering themselves masters of
Warsaw, we may be sure that there will not be on
the past of the Russian Cabinet any proposition for
the arrangement of the affairs of Poland, which will
Le of a nature to satisfy the legitimate pretentious
of the Poles.—La National.

The Polish army is in movement since the 14th
of June ; but as the most profound secrecy—prime
',lenient of success—covers the projects of the
young General, we cannot yet give any thing cer-
tain upon the aim of his manoeuvres. Some jour-
nals have announced that Skrzynecki is proceeding
towards the south, to rally the corps of Generals
Romarino and Chranowski, raise the blockade of

Zamose, and throw without doubt some troops
into Volhynia, which may serve as the centre
of organization to the numerous insurgents of
that province. Other journals announce to-day
that the Generalissimo marches upon Nur, by the
left bank of the Bug.
It is possible that some Polish corps have effectively
taken these various directions to give a diversion
to the enemy, and engage him to separate his
forces; but we do not expect that there will result
from it any thing decisive. Since the battle of
Ostrolenka, the Russian army is divided into two
principal corps, of which the one—that of the
right—is encamped upon the right bank of the
Narew, behind Pultusk, and covers the direct
communication with Lithuania, by Bialystock and
Grodno, whilst the other has entered into the
fortified position of Siedlec, observing Warsaw, and
guarding the route from Brzesc and Slonim.
Another corps, that of General Kreutz, which
occupies the Palatinate of Lublin, has passed the
Bug, to come and oppose itself to the light divi-
sion of Chlapowski, which wages a war of parti-
sans upon the rear of the Russian army. It ap-
pears, then, evident to us, that it is upon one
of the points of Pultusk or Siedlic that the Gene-
ralissimo will direct all his efforts ; it insures
the Russians the immense advantage of hav-
ing all their forces concentrated, and although
these communicate easily by the posts of
Brock, Nur, and Granne, we conceive that
an impetuous attack executed by the Polish
army, en masse, upon one of the tn•o corps of the
enemy, may be sufficiently deeisive to render null
all the efforts which the second might attempt—
especially if General Skrzynecki has the address,
and the good luck, to steal one or two marches upon
his adversaries. The death of Marshal Diebitbch
must also exercise a great influence upon the
campaign about to commence. However unfortu-
nate that General was in all his enterprizes,it is less to
the mediocrity of his military talents, than to the
bravery and heroic devotion of the Poles, that must
be attributed his reverses; and we doubt whether
the conqueror of the Persians wilt do better than
the deceased Marshal. If the late news received
from Lithuania is confirmed—if it is true that Ge-
neral Gielgud has rallied to his corps more than
40,000 patriots—and that they have seized the
port of Liebau in Courland, it is not upon the bor-
ders of the Bug, or of the Narew, that will be de
cided the fate of Poland.—Journal du Commerce.

Extract of a letter from Vienna, June 19 :—" If
you would wish to have a proof of the influence
which Austria exercises upon the various Govern-
ments of Italy, it will be sufficient to you to know
that the Court of Vienna has just caused the
Kings of Naples and Piedmont, and the Duke of
Tuscany to decide to support the proceedings which
will be made with the French Government, in or-
der that the Italian Refugees of Marseilles shall be
removed into the interior of France. The late trea-
ties of Austria, with the three Sovereigns which I
have just cited, have for their principal aim the
suppressing the revolutionary movements which
might be renewed in Central Italy, in case war with
France should be declared."
BRUSSELS, JUNE 26.—The weather is wretch-
ed. There is much rain, and, notwithstanding
that the review took place, the greatest enthusiasm
reigned. Several pelatons, in defiling before the
Regent, cryed out la guerre ! The Regent replied
to the cry by an affirmative move of the head. The
review was much more numerous than was ex-
pected.
.For two days following, the Belgian
Moniteur has been mute upon the affairs of Bel-
gium ;it speaks but of Poland. We know nothing
of that which we should know. A report is spread
that the Belgian question will be deferred to the
end of July. The Belgian people will only wait
until the 30th ofJ une ; at that date great events will
necessarily take place. The sun of July will have
an influence upon the fate of Belgium.
FoRLI, JUNE 16.—Every one speaks with
horror of the execution of Menotti ; when that
noble patriot was acquainted with the certainty that
he would be condemned, he sought to deprive himself
of life, by means of a subtle poison enclosed in an
extremely small box of gold, which he always kept
concealed in his mouth. The poison having de-
ceived his attempt, he was conducted to the scaf-
fold. By a refinement of cruelty unheard of by
any one, attached to the gibbet, he was simply
abandoned to his own weight, and Menotti did not
expire until the end of an hour and twenty minutes,
in the most horrible convulsions. Europe will long
preserve the memory of that dreadful execution.
The prompt execution of Minotti, was not only
ingratitude—it was something more. Menotti pos-
sessed secrets which would have compromised the
Duke in the opinion of Austria. Suspicions of
being an accomplice in the revolutionary proceed-
ings, weighed upon Francis d'Est, and Austria be-
gan to be upon her guard. The fact is so true,
that Menotti, though a sincere and warm patriot,
believed that the existence of the Duke was neces-
sary to the future destinies of Italy, and turned
away the poignard which would have delivered her ;
Menotti saved him from a just vengeance, and he
expiated the wrong of saving a tyrant. After the
revolution of July, the Duke of Modena, in place
of strengthening himself in these projects of Italian
emancipation, frightened at the uncertain march of
the new power, little convinced of the solidity of
the throne of Louis Philippe, dared attempt nothing
more, fearing the energy of Austria, and attaching
himself but to watch the march of the Patriots.—
Menotti, however, had woven a vast net-
work which was not ineffectual in envelop-
log Italy : the rest is known. Pressed to prove
to Austria that no tie attached him to the patriots—
pressed to destroy the men who could prove his
doubtful fidelity to Austria, Menotti and Borelli
were immolated. Others still will follow, the better
to veil these infernal precautions, to make Austria
suppose that the conspiracy was hatched in Paris.
The Italian committee were not in correspondence
with Modena. Every one of its members defy him
to publish any document which can point out that
they were any way concerned in the insurrection,
which was entirely Italian, local, excited princi-
pally by the tyranny, injustice, and bad faith of a
disloyal Prince. The manoeuvres of the Duke of
Modena will be one day known, but that cannot
add any great thing to the execration in which he
is held by all Italy, and by every one who bears a
humane and generous heart.—La Revolution.

The Emigration Commissioners held their first
meeting yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
ARCH EA 7.—The Silver Arrow, given by the
City of Edinburgh to the Royal Company; of Archers
(King's Body Guard for Scotland), was shot foe in Hope
Park on Saturday last, and won by John Nairn Forman,
En. W. S.

LONDON.
FRIDAY,_ JULY 1.

The feeling in Paris, as will be seen by
our extracts from the Paris Papers and letter of
our Correspondent, continues warlike ; but we have
not yet any facts on which to ground the probabi-
lity of such an immediate issue to the painful
labours of diplomacy.
The Public, of all religious creeds, will be gra-
tified by the Bill of the Archbishop of CANTER-
iv RY, to put an end to pluralities. The Bill pro-
poses to Repeal the 21st of HENRY the EIG 11T11.
which gave to Royal and Noble Chaplains the
power of holding many Benefices, and which has,
from that time to this, been the scandal of the
establishment. In future, no Clergyman is to hold
more than one Benefice, unless by dispensation
from the Archbishop, confirmed by the ICING, and
even then both must lie within thirty miles of each
other ; and no one is to hold two Prebendaries or
Deaneries. These are the leading features of the
Bill, which, however, contains some other excellent
regulations. We congratulate the Country upon
it; and, above all, we congratulate the Church and
the body of the Clergy upon it; for oar 11,000
Benefices will henceforward provide, in Christian
competency, for at least 10,000 Clerical Families,
instead of 3 or 4000, in mammon, as heretofore.—
In all respects, the Bill is creditable to its framers;
and, for the honour of the Church, and the satis-
faction of Members of the Establishment, we hope
it will be forthwith passed, and brought into imme-
diate operation.

to the ordinary agents of police. This was a no-'
velty of the PITT and Liv ER POOL Systems, and
one of those abuses and encroachments from which
a Whig Administration ought 'ere this to have
relieved us. Down to 1794 or 1795, the era of
Yeomanry Corps, the civil Government of these
kingdoms had been conducted by the constable's
staff ; but about that period we first began to hear
of weapons of war in every petty squabble, or
drunken brawl. This high Tory System has since
then been increasing, and though it has not yet been
diminished, it is time that it should. We should not
have to lament the tragedies at Castle Pollard, Mer-
thyr Tydvil, and Newtownbarry, if remonstrance,
parley, and the good old Saxon Constables' Staff had
been used instead of the Firelock and Bayonet. The
power of such weapons renders authority over-
bearing, and provokes, instead of appeasing, any
assembly of Englishmen. A return to old prac-
tices, and a magnanimous confidence in the
loyalty of a well-used people, ought to check this
new system ; and we have now had proofs enough
of its mischiefs.

Lord WYN FORD, last night, brought forward his
Bill, so likely to add to the present perplexity of the
Law of Debtor and Creditor. No man has better
intentions ; but it is an error of judgment, because
he legislates for the ejects of a bad system, and
not to give salutary direction to the cause or causes.
Debtors only evade their Creditors, or those who have
real or pretended claims on them, because the Law
not only does not facilitate EQUITABLE ADJUST..
MEN TS, but actually renders any adjustment im-
practicable, if not impossible, by not binding the
sordid and impassioned minority by the fair and
rational majority. No law, however just, could
pass even the House of Lords, if it were in the power
of one, or of any small minority to negative it;
yet the laws of England demand unanimity from
bodies of disappointed creditors, and then under so
absurd and cruel a system, wonder that reasona-
ble creditors do not get a farthing in the pound !
The truth is this—the ignorant and illiberal law,
sets debtors and creditors together by the ears;
and often the creditors, one among another; and
while these parties are fighting and pulling different
ways,likeEso is lion and bear,the lawyers,the foxes,
carry off the entire object of contest. This is the rea-
son why men lie in gaol, if it be so, rather than pay
their real or assumed debts—why they go abroad—
why they spend all their property in law. They are
disabled from equitable compromise by a legal
demand of unanimity, and, thereby, being ob-
liged to yield to every unjust claim, become
reckless. The fault is not in them, but in the
absurdity and illiberality of the law, and in the
knavery of lawyers, whose harvest from the
arrest to the division of the spoil, is the helplessness
of the debtor and the hopelessness and therefore
indifference, of the creditors. A bill in one leaf
would correct all these wrongs and miseries, and no
man could draw it with more skill and inherent
liberality than Lord WY NFORD.
Lord FIFE, in a speech replete with sound
views, exposed the vices and wickedness of the
existing system ; and as we trust he will suc-
ceed in arousing their Lordships to reject Lord
WY N FORD'S bill, it may be hoped that a better
system will be adopted. The difference would
be, the annual salvation of thousands, and an
average of 15s. in the pound to creditors, with
a clearing of all gaols of debtors within three
months.

Lord LONDONDERRY presented some petitions
got up in Durham, against the Reform Bill ; but
the Marquis of CLEVELAND certified that they con-
tained the sentiments of only a very small mi-
nority.

Mr. HUNT, in the Commons, presented a peti-
tion demanding justice in the affair of Newtown-
barry, and the abolition of the Yeomanry. He also
presented petitions from Lancashire, &c. praying
for Annual Parliaments, Vote by Ballot and Uni-
versal Suffrage, and to be heard at the Bar.
Mr. Hos Ito us E presented petitions from various
Cotton Districts,claiming a Law for the regulation
of hours ; and explained that his Seleet Vestry
Bill had been so altered in the Committee, that be
disowned it ; and if he prosecuted the subject it
would be by a new Bill.
Mr. PROTIIEROE tbonght it next in importance
to the Reform Bill itself, and so we think, and 59
the public think ; but the Ministers seem like a
hen with one chicken.

Mr. SADLER presented a petition against the
New Beer Bill, which embodied various prejudices
and much canting from some parties, who appear
to desire to monopolize all good things in this life.
Lord ALTHORP stated, that it is proposed to
bring in a Bill to correct some of the alleged evils;
but that he would not consent to an exclusive
licensing system: He thought the new system had
not had a fair trial—in which last opinion Mr.
JOHN WOOD concurred.

Mr. HUNT considered the Opposition to be that
of interested persons. Mr. BA Rlba. considered
that fresh disturbances would be brewed in these
houses in the country districts. Mr. PROTII EltoE
agreed with Mr. HUNT. Mr. PAGET thought that
the only fault in the new system was its restric-
tions, and not going far enough. Lord STAN LEY,
Sir M. W. RIDLEY, Sir C. BURRELL, &c. spoke
against the new system, while all condemned the
old one.

Alderman WOOD made his promised motion for
the reduction of Salaries of Public Officers to the
scale of 1797, in accordance with the present
value of money. It appeared that is that yew;

1£1,374,500 was divided among 16,000 Public
Officers. But, in 1816, these salaries had been
increased to £3,200,500, and in 1830 wero
£2,900,000. Out of the number, 980 averaged
£2,000 per annum, and some held two or three
offices.

Lord ALTIIORPE agreed in the principle, and
asserted that Government had been guided by it,
not only in their own salaries, but by all the reduc-
tions in their power. lle considered therefore that
the vote would be one of censure on ministers, and
moved the previous question.
Mr. HUNT was surprised at the altered tone of
his Lordship in administration and in opposition.
The Alderman had proved that the necessaries of
life were now lower, while the salaries continued
at their augmented rates. He stated that he spoke
for the people who could earn but 21d. per day,
and that he was determined to press this motion
to a division, in order that the country might
know who it was that opposed retrenchment.

Mr. HUME entered into a full statement of the

retrenchments already made by Ministers, and de-
precated the introduction of questions which
operated as obstacles to the carrying of the Re-
form Bill, which in itself embraced all other
questions.
Mr. O'CoNNELL concurred with Mr. Hums,
and thought the addition of 500,000 voters to
the constituency, and the exclusion of 150 no-
mination members would lead to all other prac-
ticable reforms.

Mr. DAWSON said, that the 26,243 salaried
persons in 1821, had in 1831 been reduced to
22,570; and that the salaries £3,694,000 in
1821, were this year reduced to £3,091,000 ; and
altogether there was a saving of 4050 and
£709,904.

Sir J. GRAHAM enumerated the various great
reductions in the Admiralty Departments, which,
however, had been made with due regard to the
permanent interests of the country. Mr. STANLEY
also elaborately and eloquently defended Ministers.
Mr. Alderman Wool) rerlied, that he had made
oat his case—for in 1797, a period of general war,
there was expended in the civil government but
£1,300,000; and now the expenditure was
£2,700,000. He was, therefore, determined to
divide the House, since there had not been a Mem-
ber returned for a populous place who was n..:1
pledged to support him.
But on a division, the numbers were-13 for his
motion, and 216 against it.
Mr. CAMPBELL brought in his Registry Bill,
against which so general a sense of public oppo-
sition has been expressed.
Mr. LAMBERT moved for copies of all informa-
tion relative to the horrid massacre at Newtown-
harry; which was seconded by Colonel CHICHEI.
TER, who deprecated the employment of Yeomanry.
The offence of the people, if any, only incurred
imprisonment : but the people had been murdered
without trial.

Mr. STANLEY lamented what had occurred,
but thought that the House ought not to influ-
ence the pending course of law.

Mr. O'Coxti ma. stated that fifteen had been
killed and twenty-five wounded, and still no one
was yet in custody. The parties might abscond ;
there was therefore no delicacy about a Court of
Justice.

Mr. BLAKENEY said be had just arrived from
the neighbourhood, and that the conduct of the
Magistrates had been most improper, and they bad
arrested no one. " The whole was owing to the
misconduct of the yeomanry ; and he must say,
that he never saw a more ragamuffin set of fellows,
and he would as soon have a set of butcher's boys
to keep the peace."
Sir J. DOYLE said the Yeomanry of England
were one thing, and the Yeomanry of Ireland
another.
Mr. HUNT had listened to Mr. STANLEY with
astonishment, end was not satisfied.

Mr. Hume said he had listened with honor
to the statement that had been made. Mr. LA M -
BERT, at the request of Mr. O'CoN x ELL, then
withdrew his motion.
Mr. P. THOMSON moved for a Committee to
inquire on the expediency of using molasses in the
breweries and distilleries.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 83i for the
Account, opened at 831; but on a sudden the
Market has given way, and Consols are at present
821 83.

TWO O'CLOCK.
The express from Paris this morning has brought
a re-action in the French Funds of nearly two per
Cent higher, owing to the account of the accept-
ance of the throne of Belgium by Prince Leopold.
Letters from Petersburg of the 16th June, state,
that that capital and Crownstadt were in good
health.
THREE O'CLOCK.
In the Foreign market nothing doing of con-
sequence.
We hear on Change that the Polish loan has
been contracted for, most part of it in this coun-
try ; and that the contract has been sent to Warsaw
these four days past. Should this prove correct,
the brave Poles will not want for the sinews of
war

Consols are now steady at 83/.
The heaviness of the Funds this morning is at-
tributed to reports from the west end of the Town,
much of the same principle as other stock jobbing
speculations. We should not mention it, if it was
not to gratify the curiosity of the public, that the
Earl of Grey was going out of office, and
the Duke of Wellington to take his situation. We
need not, says our city correspondent, make any
comment ; our Readers are aware from what quar-
ter it originates.

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THE CHOLER/I MORRO'S.
The following official information respecting the
ntettsnres taken by the Russian Government to pre-
vent the extension of the cholera morbus was re-
ceived yesterday afternoon :
Regulations which have been adopted by the Imperial
Russian Government for preventing the extension of the
Cholera Morbus.

" St. Petersburg, June 12, 1831.
" All vessels arriving at Cronstadt from any of the ports
of the three Baltic Governments must bring with them clean
bills of health, &C. still they will be placed under obser.
ation for eighteen days, and in case of necessity, under
tptarentine.
" As to St. Petersburg itself, iu addition to the hos-
piai, prepared last year, anti tie quarantine at 13orowitch
and Narva, and the cordon from this latter place to the sea,
medical officers will be I laced on the guard ships, fOr the
purpose of examining the crews of ell vessels coming, from
Cronstadt; besides which medical officers will n•akc the
round of all the wharfs at which goods are larded, and those
at which the barque stop, as sell as those of the tcastotn-
house, in order to ascertain the state of heal It of the crews,
as well as the labourers.
" Some doubtful cases have indeed manifested themselves
amongst the labourers on board the barques at Rybinsk and
Archangel, where, howcvar, proper measures have been
taken; but should these, as is possible, eventually prove to
be cholera, no precautions hays been omitted for the protec-
tion of St. Petersburg. Not only have orders long since been
given to examine anti pmify the bargees. in case of neces-
sity, but, by order of his Imperial Majesty. officers and
physicians have been sent to meet them. An ships from
Dantzic are to be kept under quarantine below the guardship
for fourteen days. If no sick are found on board, and no
deaths have occurred Burin;; the voyrge, the ships after
the above term, are allowed to Fatigue, after having been
fumigated.
" With respect to Cronstadt, the following arc the last
orders given to Admiral RagenoiT,ic addition to what he had
previously received :
" All vessels coming from the south and western shores
of the Baltic are to lie questioned with the greatest strict-
ness, and if on the passage there wire any sick or deaths
On board, the ships, before enterin s the h, rbour. arc to be
strictly examined, and in case of suspicion to be kept under
quarantine.
" Ostlers are given to the Custont-house to double the
vigilance of the shore guard, that not the slighteet inter-
course should take place between the ships under quarantine
and the island of Cronstadt.
" Light cruisers will be appointed to assist the guard-
ships,
" Every ship not admitted to pratiqee must hoist a yel-
low quarantine flag on board whilst under observation ; and
if the ship has no yellow flag on board, she will be pro-
vided with one.
" In case the cholera shows itself on board any vessel ar-
riving at Cronstadt, a lazaretto, surrounded by a cordon of
troops, is to be established in the island of Tolbuchen.
" In addition to any other measures of a local nature,
which the Custom-house at Cronstadt is enjoined to en.
force, physicians ate charged with the daily examin •tion of
the crew of each vessel; and in case of choices being dis-
covered on board any vessel, she will be placed under qua-
rantine."

LORD WINCIIILSEA'S BILL.
The bill just introduced by the Noble Earl is
intitled " An Act to provide for the hettcr Em-
ployment of Labourers in llnshandry,by enabling
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace to order a
distinct Rate to be made en their behalf (to be
celled the Labour Rate,) with Allowances to
such Occupiers of Land as shall find them Em-
Floyment ;" and the following, is an abstract of it :
Whereas, to the great itiory of a parish, whilst many oc-
cupiers of land may he forted rtriw arc employing their full
proportion of labourers belolging to the parish in which
their land is situated, wber.lty well labourers have avoided
becoming chargeable to the s-titl pnri.b, other occupiers of
land and tenements, with equal ability, have refused so to
do: And whereas it is expedient that encouragement should
be given to such landholders na are wilting to employ their
full proportion of labourers; to the end that melt persons
may not be subjected to the additional biotin of contribut-
ing to the maintenance of those labourers whom other land-
holders in the parish ought to employs Be it enacted, &c.
The Bill contains clauses providing—
That parish officers deliver annually to the justices acting
for the division lists of labourers in husbandry dependent on
the employment given by the landholders, and justices to
order assessments to be made for the maintenance of those
unemployed.
That justice!' allow weekly assessments to certain labour-
ers in husbandry.
That deductions be made from the rate for every labourer
employed.
That no payment to any individual labourer out of any
rates granted by virtue of this act shall exceed the wages to
which he is entitled according to the class to which he be-
longs ; which rate of wages shall be fixed and determined
fur the ensuing month at a vestry meeting convened for that
purpose at the commencement of each month ; but hr all
cases where, on account of bodily infirmity, the earnings of
the labourer are not sufficient for the maintenance of his
family, and an additional allowance shall be thought requi-
site by the justices, such allowance shall be made out of the
general assessments for the relief of the poor.
That no deduction he made for less than a week.
• That .the parish officers may collect a proportion of an
assessment made by virtue of this Act, to meet present de-
mands. and to balance accounts at the expiration of every
month ; and at every settlement each rated person shall de-
liv:r to the parish officers an account in writing of the de-
duction claimed.
That accounts be produced to a Vestry, and verified be-
fore the Justices.
That no rate shall be collected by virtue of this Act, un-
less demand for labour shall be made by those belonging to
the parish.
That certain powers are given to churchwardens and
overseers of the poor to provide land for the employment
of the poor to an extent not exceeding trees!; atetcs; and
whereas such limitation to twenty acres has beet: found in-
convenient in many parishes • Be it further enacted, That
it shall and may be lawful for the churchwardens and
overseers of the poor of any parish to provide land for the
employment of the poor, subject to the regulations and
provisions contained in this said last-recited Act, to any ex-
tent not exceeding, &c ; giving power to provide more land.
—Herald.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO THE JEWS,

Mr. C. PEARSON presented. a petition from Mr.
Abraham Lendo Mocatta, a gentleman of the
Jewish persuasion, praying to be admitted to the
freedom of the City. He congratidated the Court
on the removal of all impediments to the admission
of the Jews in future, as Cie Aldermen, since the
discussion of the question incklie Court of Common
Council, bad abandonadAheir impolitic and intole-
• rant opposition to theadinission of gentlemen so si•
' tuated, upon theirttaking the Freeman's Oath ac-
cording to the fornis of their own religion. The
Petition, together with several others of a similar
kind, was agreed to, and orders were issued to the
Chamberlain accordingly.
THE REFORM BILL.--Mr. R. TAYLOR said,
that as he saw two of the members for the City in

; the Court, he felt anxious to put a question rela-
tive to a subject in which tin v were all highly in-
terested. He alluded to the new Reform Bill, into
%%Weil one clause had been introduced which had
caused some degree of alarm amongst his neigh-
boors, and no doubt amongst those who belonged
to other Wards in the City. That clause went to
deprive all persons who did 1101 pay their rent half-
yearly of the right to veto at elections, and was
calculated, in a great measure, to frustrate the
avowed and real object of the great measure. It
happened that the unexpired leases of vast num-
bers of houses obliged the tenants to pay their rents
luarterly, so that not only small tenants, but very
large ones would, if the clause remained unaltered,
be denied the very privilege which the bill was in-
tended to secure for them. He wished to. be dis-

tinctly understood as not meaning to cast the
slightest imputation upon his Majesty's Govern-
ment by expressing his anxiety on the subject, but
he thought that some communication should be
made to Ministers as soon as possible relative to the
clause.—(Hear, hear.) Ald. WOOD said he was
sure the attention of the house would be called to
the subject in duo time. He could, without fear
of contradiction, assert that the clause requiring the
half-yearly discharge of rents was never intended
to operate re..ainst those tenants who paid quar-
terly, but merely pointed at such tenants as paid
weekly, and who, of course, were not to be in-
cluded in the constituency. He thought it, how-
ever, his duty to call the notice of the Court
to another clause, which certainly appeared to
him to be Taller an extraordinary one. It
appeared that several of the freeholders of
the City of London would be allowed to
vote as constituents for the County of Middlesex,
and of course, according to the principle of the
bill, which went to introduce the voting of one
person for two places, a leaseholder at 101. a year
rent would have a vote for the City, while the free-
holder would have no vote there. If, however,
the house happened to be only of the value of forty
shillings, then the freeholder would have a vote,
while the leaseholder would not possess any privi-
kge of the kind. He looked upon such a regula
tion in the bill as calculated to affect the City of
London very materially. Alderman VERA ISLES
said, that be had partaken largely of the anxiety
which prevailed upon the subject of the clause al-
luded to by Mr. Taylor. He had never seen a
lease of the City property which did not oblige
quarterly payments of rent to be made, so that
lie naturally felt the force of the apparent exclu-
sion of those who were leaseholders under such
circumstances. He had made some inquiry into
the question, and he might say, that it was merely
meant, as his honourable colleague had declared,
to affect the weekly tenants. As to what bad
been observed relative to the leaseholders and
freeholders, it was no doubt intended by the
arrangement described that one person should
not be able to vote for two places. Mr.
STEVENS said he felt convinced that the first
clause quoted must have arisen from error. H.
wished the Committee to watch the proceedings
in the reform bill with care. He was far from
rising to express the most remote suspicion of any-
thing like deception upon the part of ministers;'
but while the clause existed there would exist a
very strong sensation through the city ; and he
should therefore move that copies of Lord John
Russell's Reform Bill be laid before the committee
appointed to watch the bill, and that the commit-
tee should report thereupon to the Court. Mr.
Taylor, in seconding the motion, said be did not
see much in the answer of Alderman Wood. The
great object was the extension of the constituency
and the clause respecting the period of the pay-
ment of the rent necessarily went to limit the con-
stituency. Whether a freeholder or a leaseholder
voted, it was all the same to him. There was no
diminution of the numbers of electors ; but' the
question of paying the rent quarterly applied to
every tenant in existence.
SUPPLY OF PURE WATER TO THE METRO-
POLIS.-Mr. ALDERMAN brought up the report
of the Navigation Committee on the subject of the
supply of pure water to the metropolis. Ho stated
that it was peculiarly, at a period of apprehended
danger to the health of the people from the ap •
preach of a dangerous and fatal disease, the duty
of the Court to do all in its power to guard against
the contingency. He considered the supply of
pure water a most important means of aiding in the
prevention of epidemic disease. The report stated,
that the Committee had referred Mr. Wright's
proposition for filtering the water of the river
Thames to a Sub-Committee, and that they had
come to a resolution to recommend the court, as
pure water was so primary an object, to aid Mr.
WI ight in his experiment, as far as it could be
done without prejudice to the navigation of the
river.

DURATION OF COURTS OF ALDERMEN.—
Mr. CHARLES PEARSON Bid, he had been given
to understand that some members of the Court of
Aldermen considered that he had cast some reflec-
tions upon that body. He took the present op-
portunity to deny that h 3 ever had any idea of the
kind. He was, on the contrary, of opinion, they
could be made extremely serviceable if they would
attend to their business ; and for the purpose of
inducing them to do so, he would give notice that
he would move that it is expedient to apply to
Parliament for a bill to make the election of
Aldermen septennial, (loud cries of " hear.")
He was convinced that those Aldermen who were
good for anything would wish that the election
should be so regulated.

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