Star.
London, England, 1830-07-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

Trxes.—h has become a question--highly interesting, no
doubt, but not yet ripe for radefactory settlement—to what extent,
if at all, his Majesty's ministers are likely to be stren=ltiss:
Parliament new forthcoming. Certainly there is no
within our memory which held office and mated on the alffiles
State with such small majorities in both Houses as that of the Duke
of Wellington sham the opening of the session now, as we may say,
expired. -We have often, however, stated it as our sincere opinion,
that, provided a Government could keep the wheels t f State in mo-
ttos, the weaker it was in Parliamentary numbers, the more de-
sirable would it be that such an Administration should con-
tinue. A coalition Ministry, which combines the bulk of
two great parties within it, is generally vicious from a double
cause. Its members, for the most part, differ on political
measures, and conciliate each other by a mutual complaisance in
what concerns private jobs. Such a Ministry may be weak from
inward dissension ; but it is bold and strong against both King and
country. The advantage of a " broad-bottomed" Government like
that above-mentioned, and the sole advantage, is the facility
with which, where a useful measure has beat resolved on,
and is to be carried, it can put down opposition within doors;
as the only disadvantage of a Cabinet, numerically feeble in
either house, is the extreme delay and hesitation with which,
under his guidance, the publtc business advances as the
session proceeds. The Fox and North Administration was
formidable from its factious ambition ; the Whig and GM.
vine was paralysed by its own distractions. Theta gton ministry
has too much perhaps disregarded an array of str gth in ordinary
conflicts; and the consequence has been, some delay in the maismal
affairs. Still great and useful measures have been firmly cemilneled
to their close. On the eve of an election, the question which maws
to every honest voter is, what candidates ought he now toosini4
Our own feelings are for the ministry of the Duke of W
and we have more than once avowed them, because it doesnot
to us that the state of parties, and the store of public men at present
in this kingdom, would furnish a better nucleus for the government
than the cabinet of the noble Duke. Those who used to be called the
Whig party could not form an administration likely to last a month;
nor the Tories,—we mean the Eldon and Newcastle *Fades,— one that
could by possibility endure so long as the Gasetie account of their
names offices was printing. Nor could the body of extreme
Whip and of ultra Tories roale..-•i
but through sacrifices of all pre-
tence to principle, the consciousness of whhlch has already deterred
their chiefs from aiming at the establishment even of a regular op-
position. How much more hopeless would be the effort to insofar,-
tun a Government out of such materials I The natural solution of
the crisis seems to be, the incorporation of moderate Tories, like
the principals of the existing Cabinet, with other individuals
holding the midway between Tories and Whip, if such men
can be found, or with the least violent of the latter class of States-
men.—With regard to the tenets of candidates avowed upon the
hustings, we have said before, that one test with us would be the dis-
position of the party towards a repeal of the corn law—a law fond
on Ministers by the bigotry of the landed interest, and pressing ea
all other interests—nay, on that itself—lite a nightmare. A mood
test would be a pledge to cut down the Civil List, and to support,
systematically and invariably, emomniml reform in every deportment
of the State. A third pledge, which we should feel disposed 10
exact from candidates at this moment, would be one for establishing
the right of representation in favour of great and populous t
which doubtless are not adequately protected by their tbeoretial
claims upon Parliament as a body, and for which we should be
anxious to gain something, because they combine the three main
titles to constitutional attention—property, intelligence, and num-
bers. There is no reason to apprehend that an attachment to the
series of public objects which we have enumaated,would be incompa-
tible with a general support of the policy of the present Government.

HEILALD.—Lest it, we received the Gaulle de Preset
Saturday, together wi the lifesaver des Ckastbres, and other
Paris papers of Friday. We have examined their contents with
more than usual curiosity, in the expectation of finding amongst
them a copy of the telegraphic despatch, announcing the fall
Algiers, noticed by most of the London evening journals of Satur-
day. However, we might have spared ourselves the trouble of a
inure minute examination than usual, as neither the Gazelle de
Frazee nor any of the other papers contains the despatch, or so
much as an allusion to it. In the meantime, a mars blundering
despatch (if the copy which we received on Saturday evening from
Calais be a faithful transcript, and it is attested " a true copy,o)
never was published since the invention of the telegraph ; and, to
convince the reader that we have not given an improper description
of it, we give this precious document as it has been sent to us :—..
"Calais, July 9. 1830.
" The following is a true copy of the telegraphic despatch ar-
rived here this evening, which I send you. If his of any use to
you, use it; if not, excuse me in doing it," dm
DEPECHE TELEORAPHIE DE PARIS,

"De Juillet .8, 1830.
"Ls itIMISTRE DI LA MARINI AUX AU/MUTES.

"Alger seat rendu i discretion, le pavilion du Roi de hones
flottait sur le Palate du Dey--taken 1,500 guns, 12 vessels of war,
the arsenal of war and marine, the provisions, and the Inns."
This is a faithful transcript, as we said before, of the despatch
as it has been sent to us • and we shall pass over its mixture
of execrably bed French us;
bad English, u this may be the
act of the individual who has transmitted it, and who, forgetting
part of the French version, endeavoured to supply the loss by
sending it in bad English. But if that portion of it, which ap-
pears in a Gallic dress, be a " true copy," we have not the
slightest hesitation to say that it is a spurious document. We do
not rest our opinion upon the authograpLial and grammatical
errors with which it abounds, as these may originate in the care-
lessness or ignorance of the transcriber; but we found it chiefly
upon the following which is a gross 'violation of the
style uniformly emplf;lart'all official communizations. "Le pa-
vilion du Rol de France flottait cur le Palais du Dry." In all such
communizations the phrase • Roi de France" is never used, but
simply the word Rol. The sentence should, therefore, run thus :
"Le pavillion du Rol flout (not flottait) sur le Palals," 4tc. We
think another objection may be taken to the words " aux autorites,"
at the commencement of the despatch, as it is not to be supposed that
the minister would omit to designate by name the chief person in
office at Calais, whether maritime prefect, if any, or the sous pre-
fect of the department, or the mayor, or the commander of the
garrison. This omission, and above all, thideparture from official
custom in the wording of the despatch, completely justify the cha-
racter of blundering despatch which we have Oren to the copy
that has been transmitted to us. AU this we do not consider as an
absolute proof that the news is false, or that Algiers has not fallen
in the way or at the time stated ; but we do say again, that the
uncouth form in which it appears, induces us to suspend our belief,
till we receive a confirmation of it through the usual and regular
channeL That confirmation will, in all human probability, reach
us in the course of the night, by a second express, provided there
be any truth in the report; and, if it do not arrive, our present
doubts will assume a character of more than suspicion. In the mean
time, the news, if true, has been transmitted from Algiers to Paris
with extraordinary rapidity. The last despatch which had
been previously published, and which was dated the 30th, was
seven days on the road, not having reached Paris till the 6i13;
whereas the present is alleged to have been transmitted on the
lith, and received on the 9:h, a circumstance which cannot be over-
looked in determining the degree of credit due to the account. The
only thing on the subject of Algiers in the papers le merely a re-
petition of former news, and is only interesting as it does not prepare
us in the slightest degree foi the immediate fall of that city. The
rest of their contents relate chiefly to the elections, the results of
which, as ascertained on Thursday evening, are thus given r
For the Opposition .... . . 186
• For the Ministry . l2l
Of no party
Of the 221, who voted for the Address. 126 have been already
re-elected, and only 13 rejected. Eleven nominations remained to
be known, without including those of the adjourned Colleges, great
and small, and which, it may be fairly presumed, have not been
adjourned in consequence of their supposed partiality towards the
present Blin istry.

eIIitONICLE.—It is affirmed that there are fewer symptoms dean.
test at the ensuing election than have beeen usual on foemeroceasions
—that few counties either in England or Ireland, and few of the po-
pulous Boroughs,will be disputed We are willing to interprettavour.
ably these signs of the times. With respect to the counties, no cue can
wonder that the honour of sitting for one of them should be generally
deemed a poor compensation for the expense of a contest—.
In times of keen party dissension, we can easily understand how
It may become an object with a party to return both the Candidates,
or to endeavour to return one, when both have been mono-
polised by the other party. But in times like the present
when every man views the question more with reference to himself
individually than with reference to a party, the seat which is ob-
tained at the least expense will usually be deemed the best seat.
We do not hear that the price of boroughs has fallen; on the con-
trary, we believe them to be higher than ever; but caadidates, we
suppose, take the price of close places as a pound for determining
what open places may be advisable in them to stand for. We are
almost certain, that if those who conduct the government of this
country set with tolerable judgment, Nab a thing as party, in the as of that tenn, will be no kagewpseeible. If a Minister lets it be
seen that he i* really desirous eireninekag the expediters of the
country, he will have little to fear tank idols. It is to be borne in
mind that the heavy charge for the interest of the national debt has
• strong tendency to deaden party viebees. The fund foe distri-
bution among the friends of the sucanefid party bears but a small
proportion to the whole expenditure, while, on the other hand, a
large proportion of the interest of the national debt is payable to a
wealthy woneyetK clas.l throughout: the cannery, who hovel bee
thanes of obtaining government mousy than the aristeasey, properly

s called, and who Sheraton have m interest in favouring, in the places
where they peewees hawses, the ram at members dispomd tosupport
economical measures. Great dumps have taken place in the dia.
ftibution of in this within the last years;
peoperty the number of men in lodgment's.' memos. is %pat-
er and, with the spread of indigenes, we may
that this independence will be mire and more usefully
We are therefore inclined to think that every fresh election will
strengthen the ability of the Govemoset to resist interested cabals
and of this we are certain, that no Soseement of this country need
any longer to be in apprehension at kind of great families,
such as them alluded to in a pan. to which we lately
alluded. We do not think that t allowance kin ge-
neral made for the increased lanspenetce throughout the
country, from the greater diffusion of ty. When
King drew up his account of England landsiwas I:hreir 2.
The franchise was then as much that of the = as if he had
voted himself in right of his tenants. So late as 1784, when the
first edition of Sir John Cullum's valuable " History and Antiqui-
ties of Hawsted" was published, the connection between landlord
and tenant was almost as close as that between a Polish Lord
and his slave. Sir John, living in one of the most improved
counties of the Kingdom, Suffolk, says Till now, there used
to be a close connection between the landlord and the tenant;
the latter looking up to the former as his patron, and desirous
of showing him every mark of 'attachment and respect ; but in
the contested election for the County in April, 1784, when several
gentlemen canvassed their tenants, they found they had already en-
gaged their first votes, and were even denied their second." Sir
John was dreadfully alarmed at this new " feature in the charac-
ter" of the ago. Horace Walpole, I giving an account of his
last election for Lynn, speaks of the people as having been
little better than savages when he was before among them.
After dwelling on his fatigues, he observes, " Yet to do the
folks justice, they are sensible, and reasonable, and civilised ;
their very language Is polished since I lived among them. I
buts this to their more frequent intercourse with the world and
the capital, by the help of good roads and post-chaises, which, if
they have abridged the King's dominions, have at least tamed his
subjects." It is not long since even Westminster was little better
than a borottgh belonging to two or three noble families. The
increasing respectability of the people will alone produce a consider-
able revolution in the mode of exercising the franchise. In many
places the respectable inhabitants have had their eye on Westmin-
ster, and endeavoured, by combination, to thwart appeals to ignor-
ance and poverty.—Though, therefore, it would be vain to hope that
men should expose themselves and their families to destruction by
an Independent exercise of the suffasge, yet the number of those
who can afford to be independent is constantly increasing; and the
time may not be far distant when the number of independent places
may be so great as to outweigh the close places so much as to render
propertylp
in boroughs of little value. It is only the power of reach-
tublic purse, which gives value to rotten boroughs.
FOREIGN INTELLIGRIVER.

Buzzes-AT axe, Aran. 24..=kurnours are afloat that Govern-
Mot Wood to do away entirely with the bank discounting, as they
have food out that the public receive no benefit whatever from the
accommodation, only a few, and principally the directors, who reap
all the advantages. A decree came out this morning, prohibiting
the exportation of horse bides after four months hence. Doubloons
118 to 120; dollars 76 each ; exchange Old.
Poitru..l.--Letters from Oporto of June 26, give a very
gloomy account of the state of Portugal, from which many respect-
able families are said to be anigradag. Some uneasiness had been
felt at Figttaira among the !Sneak residents, in consequence of a
report that the arrest of several had been ordered ; but the alarm
seems to have been unfounded.
The Chrasietz de Terceira contains orders of the day by Count
Villa Floe, some decrees of the Regency, an article or two in de-
fence of its proceedings, and an account of the arrival from time to
time of some merehant vessels. In the Chronic. of the 12th of
June we find the commencement of a republication of the laws of
the Portuguese Monarchy, including of course the Charter, and the
Decrees of the present Representatives of Donna Maria 11.
A Lassas.—Accordin to the Courier Francois, Capt. Broom,
the shipwrecked commander of Le Silene' detained at the Bayne of
Algiers, informed General Bourmont that the Divan had determined
to behead the Dey. They had sent him a bowstring to strangle
himself, and a deputation to cut off his head in public ; but that
the cunning Barbarian had declined it, and sent Janissaries and
Turkish soldiers to the Divan, who beheaded 60 of its members.
The same paper also states that the fort de l'Etoile had been entered
by the Preach, when they found it mined, and retreated just in
time, after which It was blown up.
M. Grassy de Haman, the Strulish Consul at Algiers, states
its population as follows:
Barbary men
Moors, Arabs originally
Bedouin Arabs ........... 200,000
Negroes

_ .
Jeis ....•.........•.•••...• 45,000
_

Turks and their desandests, Ca nEs 33,000
European Christians
lieneigadoes ... 200

Total

FRANCI.—PARIS, JULY Its-The nominations of the great col.
leges prove the fatal influence which the law of 1828 has exercised
on the minds of the electors. It cannot be forgotten that in 1890
there were 155 nominations of Royalists out of 172 in those colleges,
and now, instead of 17, the Liberals will perhaps have 00. This state
of things has been produced by the licentiousness of the peens, and by
tho concessions made since 1828,and a new dissolution would produce
elections that would be still worse: the only counterpoise which the
King has to oppose to democracy, the right to dissolve, is de-
stroyed. It is, therefore, the constitution itself which is now in
imminent danger. We read In a journal—' It appears that the
King will not open in person the ensuing session. The President
of the Council will merely announce the immediate presentation of
the budget. As there will not have been any speech from the
ihrone, the Chambers will have no opportunity of replying to it by
a;threatening address.'
(Fran the Meleager des Cha&,yes of Friday, July 8.)
An express arrived yesterday from Toulan with despatches and
letters from the army, dated the 27th of June. The despatches are
said to contain longer details than the preceding of the battle of the
24th, the last affair in which the enemy acted on the offensive. On
the 27th the army was half a league from Algiers. The telegraphic
accounts yesterday inform us that, on the 30th, our army was be-
fore the feet of the Emperor, and the post of the vly above the
Cassaba of Algiers. Private letters inform us, that fresh hordes •
Bedouins and Berbera are coming from the environs of 'Freemen.
Mascara, and other places in the interior, to intercept the communi.
cations of the French army, which report describes to them as
abounding in gold and silver.
CONITANTINOPLI4 Jima 14.-.. The R glish Legation has re-
ceived the news that the Prince of Saxe-Coburg refuses the throne
of Greece. This news has put the whole diplomatic body into a
bustle. The Ministers of the Porte seem very indifferent about it :
they pretend to care very little about knowing who will reign in
Greece, and think that that country, left to itself, will furnish the
best proof that it was wrong to support its insurrections. The emi-
gration of the Greeks continues in the provinces which are still sub-
ject to the Turkish dominion.