Star.
London, England, 1831-04-18 00:00:00

POLAND.

The following prayer was read in one of the churches of
Warsaw, on the 25th of March, the day of the Annunci-
ation :—" Holy Virgin ! Mild mother of mortals ! One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one years have already
flowed past, since you 4 ear rejoiced to listen to the words
pronounced by the angel—' Your Infant will be the SA•
lOUR of nations.' Intercede this day that your divine
ion may send also a consoling angel to a people faithful to
his law, since so many ages. Let Poland, which calls you
its Queen, let Poland, which was so often the most firm
support of all Christianity, become again flourishing under
the shelter of the Holy Evangelist, and be also the shield
of the liberty of nations. Holy Virgin ! Should the All-
powerful decide, in his profound wisdom, that our all
Christian country must suffer, like your Divine Son, the
death of a martyr, let its glory form part of the eternal
irlory of the world !"
WARSAW, APRIL 3.—The Echo of Poland contains
the following extractof a letter, dated March 10th, from the
district of Rialystock "We are here witnesses of the
horrible consequences of war ; a prodigious number of sol-
diers die daily in consequence of their wounds, whilst the
pest and dysentery make still greater ravages in the Russian
anal-, and communicates even to the peasantry on the side
of die Narew and the Niemen. The officers sent to bring in
horses, of which the camp is very much in want, assure us
that the Russians have already 50,000 men hors de combat,
and that the cottages and the granaries of the villages and
boroughs, situated between the camp and the frontier, are
crowded with sick, the number of which is computed at
20,000. We cannot regard these sick in any other light
than dead, unless Count Sabalkanski has a second army
of physicians, and which must be followed by a train of
officers equivalent to the immense number of waggons of
which he is in need to provision his army in victuals
and forage. The same officers reckon fifteen Russian
Generals killed upon the field of battle, besides those which
are wounded and put hors de combat."
We have received letters from Warsaw, dated the 4th in-
stant, announcing that the Russian army had been com-
pletely routed ; that it was flying in all directions for the
four preceding days, and that the Poles were then 24 leagues
distant from Warsaw. Eight thousand prisoners, of which
50 were Officers, several Colonels, General Lewandowski,
.t pieces of artillery, five stand of colours, and a great quan-
tity of ammunition had fallen into the hands of the Poles.
A considerable number of prisoners had offered to take ser-
vice against the Russians. The loss on the side of the Poles
was inconsiderable, whilst the corps of the army, of Rosen
and Geismar, were almost annihilated. —National.

APRIL I.—(Extract of a letter dated Schirwinty,
March 30.)—" I have the honour to inform you that the
whole population from Memel to Wilna, and beyond it, is
in open insurrection. The passage of the Niemen, by the
Russian guard, was the signal for the rising. The depot of
arms of the arsenal of Wilna is in the hands of the patriots
The plan of the latter having been betrayed to the authori-
ties, they were obliged to hasten its explosion. The first
members of the Lithuanian Provisional Government are
Messrs. Stankiewick, Romikley, and Plater.—Le Temps.
A letter from Memel states that the insurgents of Lithu-
ania are still scouring the country of Samogitia, in the en-
irons of Polangen, and are cutting off communications
with the interior of Russia; they have already burnt the
bridge of Mittau; Old Polangen and a neighbouring village
hate been reduced to ashes. However, the Konigsberg
Gozelte states that the 5,000 peasants who revolted in Sa-
mogitia have dispersed ; but the insurrectional party still
continue their contention with the garrison of Wilna.
WA RSA W, APRIL 4.—Our army is now placed between
the corps of Marshal Diebitsch and the Imperial Russian
Guard, which has arrived to reinforce it. Our general quar-
-11
ters is this day at Siednice. On the 2d, at noon, the tro-1
phies of the victory were five flags, 7,344 prisoners, twenty-1
six pieces of cannon, thirteen dicers of all ranks, two gene-
rals (Lewandow ski amt: in.). and a great number of
carriages and waggons. It was Colonel Romarino who, at
the head of two regiments, commenced the attack : it was
so lively and so obstinate, that it promptly decided the vic-
tory. The Colonel knew but one word of Polish by
which to command his troops ; it was napizod—forward :
he was named General of Brigade, upon the field of
battle. The number of prisoners increases every moment ;
they walk freely in the city; the greatest part take service
with the Poles. When we saw the entry at Warsaw of the
prisoners made in the battle of the 21st March, followed by
several pieces of cannon wrested from barbarians by the
army of liberty, enthusiasm was at its height; but it was
mixed with little surprise. The Polish troops were accus-
tomed to prodigies. It was not the same at the passage of
the officers who carried the conquered flags. Sentiments
of delight seized all the friends of humanity on hearing the
Russian officers, prisoners, cry " Long live European liberty."
It has then pierced the ices of the North, that vivifying
spark which despotism vainly endeavours to extinguish. The
Russian soldiers in the power of the Poles, hearing these
last speak of their late victories, say that it is not by them
that they have been conquered, but by the Holy Virgin-
- We are abandoned by her," they repeat sadly. "We
always see her hover above the Poles, and never above us."
Le taking by Dwernicki, of their chapel, and an
image of the Virgin to which they attached great value, has
infinitely discouraged them. A member of the Diet went
yesterday to Minsk, which he found devastated ; we were
nut astonished that the Russians had destroyed the superb
idrniture, and the machines for thrashing the corn, este-
n:ished at great expense ; burnt for their diversion, the mag-
nificent granaries, annihilated all that an opulent proprietor
Lad obtained around him, the produce of European industry ;
but that which is revolting, that which we refused to believe,
in spite of the evidence, is, that nothing which even draws
the respect of an enemy is sacred to them. Forced to aban-
don Minsk, they caused a Cossack to set fire to the palace,
hich they had converted into an hospital, and, unleu a
faithful domestic had extinguished it, this dismal firebrand
m mild have consumed a great number of sick Russians and
Poles. They fired upon the domestic for his humanity, but
:ailed in killing him.

ITALY.
A merchant vessel, having on board 91 passengers,
others say 140, all respectable citizens, who had more or
wss figured in the insurrection of Bologna, left on the 29th
of ,Nlarch last the port of Ancona, where it had been
f-eighted by them. Cardinal Benvenuti, Legate a latere in
the marche of Ancona, had signed the passports of these
Illustrious refugees, who, at his instigation, had laid
down their arms ; and, rather than imbrue their country in
blood by a longer resistance, consented to fly to a foreign
land, in consequence of the armistice concluded between
bis Eminence and the insurgents. The vessel which ehel-
tered so many unfortunates, sacrificed by the political in-

humanity of France, should have been regarded as a herald,
and, as such, sacred by all men. The exiles directed first
upon Greece, but the ultimate destination was France.
After six hours navigation upon a sea nearly always inhos-
pitable, and still in the latitude of Loretto,was boarded by an
Austrian brig. The commander summoned all the pas-
sengers not to lay down their arms, since they had none to
defend themselves, but to come on board the brig as pri-
soners; if not, he threatened to sink the merchantman. At
the summons of the Austrian brig, these men, the chosen
of the free cities of the Italian insurrection, were brutally
torn from the vessel which had served for their asylum, and
thrown with barbarity to the bottom of the hold of the brig
of the imperial marine. Civilized Europe will refuse to be-
lieve, in the nineteenth century, that such an outrage was
committed which violates at once the rights of men and the
laws which should govern the universality of empires. It
will be sufficient without doubt to expose these facts, in or-
der to interest all men in favour of these unfortunates, to
call against the commandant of the brig, revengeful spoli-
ator, public and general indignation. What right can this
political pirate invoke to authorise the capture of an inof-
fensive vessel, which quits a friendly country, protected by
the authorities which command it, and which is proceeding
towards the land at peace with Austria ?
The Gazette of Augsbourg informs us, that the Austrian
brig carried away to Venice General Zucchi, and his com-
panions in misfortune. We must accuse the French Go-
vernment for not having sent in the Adriatic a cruiser to
receive the insurgents, and protect their flight. When
Ibrahim-Pacha devastated the Peloponesus, and when the
Grand Vizir burnt the isle of Chio, the Government of
Charles X, who was always frightened at the single word
liberty, sent in the seas of Greece vessels, of which the
commanders were charged to force away the victims from
their persecutors. At the moment when the Italian insur-
gents approached Rome, and appeared about to seize it
without resistance, a frigate and a French brig cruised be-
fore Civita Vecchia, to receive on board the Cardinals and
the Pcpe, if they were obliged to quit the Vatican. Why
then, since Austria has intervened, in spite of France, in
the Roman States, why then, we say, have not the Mi-
nisters, born of the revolution of July, reserved a part of
their solicitude for the unfortunate less powerful ?—Le Na-
tional.

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.
TIMEII.—We do not shut out from our observation the fact that
considerable alarm has been expressed in various quarters, during the
week just expired, respecting the disposition of certain personages
towards the Reform bill; and likewise with regard to the question
whether hie Majesty's Ministers resolution enough to qualify
them for a contest, not with the ing, but with the Court, if necessary,
secure as they have a right to consider themselves of the staunch,
thoroughgoing, and unflinching adherence of the whole British nation.
We have treated with disdain the gossip of intriguers who would
avenge themselves for their failure to poison their Royal hlaster's ear
with misrepresentations both of his loyal subjects and of his upright and
prudent Minister*, by again misrepresenting to the people the enlight-
ened sentiments and honest consistency of their King. The Duke of
Wellington, in spite of all the opposition, carried triumphantly the
bill of Catholic emancipation. Lord Grey, on the other hand, has
had his Majesty's full and formal permission to accomplish this great
measure. He has with him, beyond dispu.e and almost without
so much as individual dissent, '
the whole body of the English,
Scotch, and Irish nations, wrought up to a pitch of eagerness and
enthusiasm of which there is no example in modern times.
Can it be that Lord Grey. as compared with the Duke of Wellington,
does not inspire the same full conviction of his lofty, firm, and index.
ible purpose, to execute what (under auspices so infinitely more favour.
able) his lordship bas attempted? If this be the view which timid
or ilinformed men have taken of Lord Grey's character, and of that
of his colleagues, we do not hesitate to express our belief that it will
turn out to be most fallacious and unjust. Our persuasion is, and we
do not speak at random, that Ministers will be found to act in a spirit
of manly and unsullied good faith—that they will maintain untouched
and in its purity, the great principle of substituting a real for a nomi-
nal representation of the people of England—that they will not lend
themselves to any wretched system of party partiality, although their
political enemies, themselves the
,paramount jobbers of the country,
have accused them of it, or to any false and mischievous plan for set-
ting up one class or interest of society to the detriment of another.
POST.—This night the question whether England shall or shall not
be made the victim of a democratic revolution will be submitted to the
decision of the House of Commons; and we should feel all the awful.
ness of the crisis, if hlinisters had not relieved us of all apprehensions
as to the result, by showing that with the temper and principles of re-
volutionists they possess nothing of the intellect, the energy, the ad.
dress, the devoted fidelity even to the cause in which they have madly
embarked, which are always necessary to render the enemies and as-
sailants of an established Constitution in any degree formidable. Any
thing weaker or more absurd than the manner in which the Reform
Question has been managed by these persons, who forsooth think them-
selves qualified to pull to pieces and then to reconstruct the whole
frame of Government in England, has never been exposed to the deri-
sion and contempt of mankind.
HeRALD.—in the interval which has elapsed since the second read.
ing of the Reform Bill passed the House of Commons the opponents
of the measure have not omitted any action which disappointment, ma-
lignity, or craft, could suggest to defeat it at the next stage. Insi-
nuations respecting a change of opinion in the highest quarter have not
been withheld ; direct assertions of interference on the part of other Il-
lustrious personages have been hazarded ; and, last of all, a re-action
among the people of England towards the maintenance of the
traffic in their representation bas been proclaimed. We firmly
believe that the insinuations, the assertions, and the proclama-
tions, are alike unfounded. It may be irregular and unconsti-
tutional to use the King's name in either House of Parliament, but
we belonging to the people, being out of doors, or elsewhere, and not
needing any customary evasion, may say that our confidence in his pre-
sent Majesty is unlimited; we believe him to be • man who would not
lightly give his assent to any measure of State policy; but, having
given that assent upon conviction, we believe him to be the last man
wt.o would be misled into not following out the constitutional comm.
quences of an assent constitutionally given. We believe, also, that,
incapable of intrigue himself, he is pertady alive to the conduct of
those who, while in office, attempted to govern by the gos.
sipping intrigues of society, and who hope to effect their
return to power by similar manseuvres. When the Member for Pres.
ton, returning from his professional and political circuit, declares that
the people are undeceived about this measure of reform, and, having
discovered that it brings with it neither universal suffrage nor cheap
bread, they are resolved to reject it, the gentleman is cheered by the
two Sir Roberts, and by the gang of ex-ministers, ex-secretaries, and,
we had nearly said, ex.boroughowners. But whence comes :his
cheer P—From the same feeling which induced the Carlists of
France to delight in the unreasonable demands preferred immediately
after the revolution in July last by the class, ouvriere of Paris.
The member for Preston is as oracular in his line as the Duke of Wel-
lington in his, and, as we distrust the authority of modern oracles, we
affirm both their Graces to be equally wrong. They, however, think
alike of the people of England. In their opinion "the people are blind
and mat: ;"—they cannot see their obvious interest, and they are ready
to rush upon ruin ! Neither the Tories nor Mr. Hunt are in office, and
in the atom they have crept "under his gaberdine ; for misery makes'
men acquainted with strange bedfellows;" but we rely on Mr. Hunt's
abandonment of the dirty connection.
TIMES—As the time for bringing the grand question of Reform to
its consummation approaches, the rumours of tricks and treacheries in-
crease. It is now, we find, again asserted, that the King will not con-
sent to the dissolution, should the present Parliament violate its duty
to the country by rejecting the bill. Are they the friends of the me.
narchy,we as they the friends of the King personally—who have
raised and circulated this report to his prejudice ? We say to his
prejudice, for even they who who would rejoice in the defeat of the bill
by any means, would still not fail of blaming the Sovereign for having
suffered it to be carried thus far by his own servants; whilst the rest of
the country, who are wrapped up, as it were in the success of the
measure, would vent all their indignation against the author of the
defeat. The King's ministers have brought in the bill with his con-
sent and approbation: with his countenance and under his auspices
(for he could have discharged them at any time), they have
fought it through its first stages. Is it to be believed that William
IV. is capable now of deserting the pledges which this conduct gives to
his people of his sincerity in the cause of reform, and defeating the
bill with which he is thus identified, by refusing to allow of a
dissolution of Parliament, should that be , for the com-
pletion of the work ? Oh no : William IV. incapable of
any thing like this. In repelling this calumny upon His
Majesty's fair fame. his consistency, or sincerity, it will be ob-
served that we speak of the dissolution of parliament as necessary to the
MIXON of the measure. The power to dissolve is undoubtedly neces-
sary; and this the adherents of the boroughmongering system see. The
power, unexerclsed, may be as efficacious as the dissolution itself. In
the same manner the report that the power has not been granted may be
se injurious as the positive refusal of the power; and theme his that a re-
port has been raised by those who are reckless of the effect which it will
have upon the King's character. We would wipeoff the false aspersion
from his Majesty's reputation, and thus remove a considerable obstruct
don to the success of the bill.

THEIR MAJESTIES.
WINDSOR, Am 17.
The two regiments of life guards and the coldstreams were
this morning inspected by his MAJESTY, and afterwards
went through the regular parade morements, in the grand
quadrangle of the castle. There were present—
The Queen, Prince George, Lord and Lady Errol. Miss Wilson,
Miss Eden, (Maids of Honour) Sir Augustus D'Este, Captain George
Fitzclarence, R. N Hon. Mrs. Erskine, Mrs. Fox, Mr. Wood, and Sir
Frederick Watson.

The KitiTand QUEEN, with the whole of their suite,
afterwards attended Divine Sei vice at St. George's Chapel.
The Rev. C. DIOBY, canon in residence, officiated.
There are no arrivals at the Castle to-day ; indeed little
company is expected before their MAJESTIES again leave
for town, which will be on Tuesday next. They will re-
main in London twelve days, after which they will return to
the castle, and make it their permanent residence during the
summer.

There are no orders for either the carriages or saddle horses
to be at the Castle this afternoon.
Her M A JEST I', with her attendants, honoured the company
on the Terrace with her presence, and afterwards walked from
thence by the Slopes to Adelaide Cottage and back. The
KING did not leave the Castle.
Their MAJESTIES arrived on Friday evening at the Castle,
in their travelling carriage and four, with outriders, and
under an escort of the Life Guards ; a second carriage fol-
lowed, containing Prince GEORGE, Mr. WOOD, Miss
WILSON, and Miss EDEN.
Saturday morning, at eleven o'clock, his MAJESTY, in his
pony phaeton, accompanied by Sir JEFFRR WIIATV ILLE,
inspected the various improvements in the Great Park, and
retired to the Castle at one o'clock.

At three their MAJESTIES took an airing in a single-
bodied pony phaeton, and on their return walked over the
Upper and Lower Mews. Prince GEORGE, Mr. Wool),
Colonel FITICLARENCE, and Mr. COEMER, attended their
MAJESTIES.

As the Kixo and QUEEN were walking through the
Upper Mews, we observed a respectably dressed female in
mourning ; she appeared greatly agitated, and was evidently
watching for a favourable opportunity to present a petition.
She seemed, however, not to have the courage to do so, and
walked away in great emotion.
Lord and Lady ERROL, Sir AUGUSTUS D'ESTE, Captain
FITZCLARENCE, and remainder of the Suite, arrived this
day.
The Landgravine and Princess AUGUSTA remain in town.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent entertained the
Duchess of Gloucester and a distinguished party at dinner
on Saturday, at the King's Palace, at Kensington.
The Duke of Cumberland honoured I oid Kenyon with
his company at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence
in Portman•square. A numerous party of the nobility and
gentry were present to meet his Royal Highness.
Prince Leopold honoured the Earl and Countess of Tanker-
vine with his company at dinner last evening, at their resi-
dence in Grosvenor-square.
The Duke of Sussex, the Landgravine of Hesse-Hom-
berg, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia,
visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at her residence in
the King's Palace, St. James's.
Prince Leopold honoured the performance at the Italian
Opera-house, on Saturday evening, with his presence.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the
Foreign-office, which was attended by the whole of the
Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of Lord Holland.—
The Council sat in deliberation about two hours.

A conference of the Ambassadors and Ministers of the
great Powers, on the affairs of Belgium, was held on Satur-
day afternoon at the Foreign-office. There were present
the Russian, Austrian, French, and Netherlands' Ambassa-
dors, the Prussian Minister, the Baron de Wessenburg,
Count Mastucewitz, and Viscount Palmerston. The Minis-
ters were engaged in deliberation about three hours.
The Spanish, Mexican, and Brazilian Ministers visited
Viscount Palmerston on Saturday, at the office of the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs.
A Deputation, among whom were Mr. Briscoe, M.P.
Mr. Gordon, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Moore, had an inten iew
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at the
Treasury.
A meeting of the Lords of his Majesty's most honourable
Privy Council was held on Saturday morning at the council
office, which was attended by the Lord President, the Master
of the Rolls, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Lord
Foley. Their lordships were occupied in hearing appeals
from the decisions of colonial courts. Three cases were
disposed of.
The Queen and Prince Leopold seat donations of 101. each
to the Choral Fund, the annual concert of which charity
took place on Friday evening at the King's Concert-room,
iu Hanover-square. Some of the first rate vocal and in-
strumental performers lent their assistance.

Lord Althorp, on Saturday nuaning, further postponed
the Committee on the Stamp Acts, with the view of bring-
ing forward his proposed alterations of the Newspaper
Stamp and Advertisement Duties, till Friday next.
DEM.—Suddenly, at the seat of his brother-in-law, Sir
Archibald Campbell, Baronet, near Glasgow, the Right Hon.
Sir John Connell, Knight, Judge of the High Court of
Admiralty in Scotland, and Procurator for the Church of
Scotland.

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DRURY-LAN a.—The new tragedy of the Pledge, or
Castilian Honour, was repeated before a crowded house on
Friday. It is without doubt the finest, and the most intensely
interesting effort of the tragic muse within our recollection ;
and so pleased are we in being able to discharge honestly
the most agreeable part of a critic's task (whatever
authors think), that we shall waive for the pre-
sent, any notice of some slight defects in the thread
of the tale, and merely make a few observations on the
nature of the interest it excites. This one play embraces
all the stormy passions of love, jealousy, revenge, ambition,
in their utmost purity, and made the sole principles of
action. It exhibits a state of society very different indeed
from that in which we live, but ntivertheless so true to
nature, that every heart admits the probability of the tale
in all its particulars, and a slight acquaintance with
history enables us at once to recognise an exact deli-
neation of the manners, %hums, and vices of the proud
nobles of Spain, and indeed of Europe in the most chival-
rous period of history—the age of Charles V. The Ten-
centre between the King and Hernani, in the second act ;
the bold defiance of the one, and the haughty sense of roy-
alty in the other ; the Duke's resolution to preserve
his hospitality inviolate against a host of passions and
especially the appeal to his own picture already ranged
among his ancestors ; the pledge ; the conspiracy, the
first sparks of that boundless ambition which throughout
his life burned within the Emperor's breasts, all this softened
with the devoted love of Donna Zonate, and brightened by
the joyful consummation of her wishes, is no ordinary pic-
ture. But thenceforth an overwhelming sense of woe,
almost too oppressive, attends the spectator up to the tre-
mendous catastrophe. We have not room to say wore than
that the acting is throughout excellent, and that Miss
Phillips, of whose merits we have a very high opinion, is
decidedly gainig a hold on public favour. Nettlewig
Hall, which followed, was deservedly hissed by those who
were not paid for clapping.

NOTI( }I TO THE EAST IND:A COMPANY.

Mr. C. rant. just as the house was about to rise on Sa-
turday morning, brought forward his promised motion re-
specting the notice to be given to the East India Company
(pursuant to the 53d Geo. 111. c. 155), preliminary to the
termination of their Charter.

The following are the resolutions moved by the Right
Hon. Gentleman, and adopted by the House :
" 1. That notice be given (io the Rest India Company) that the -unt
of 1,207,5591. 15s. and all arrears of annuity payable in respect thetee,
being the remainder of the capital stock debt, or sum due from thz
Public to the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the
East Indies, will be redeemed and paid off on the 22i of April, !MI.
agreeable to the power of redemption contained in the la't•nar:a.aw:ed
Act.

•• 2. That Mr. Speaker do, on the 22.! day of April 1831. ‘igt;.!y, by
writing, to the United Company of Merchants of i;:i414:41 riding 10
the East Indies, the said Resolution of the House.'

SCOTCH HISPITAL.

Oa Saturday last the friends and support:Hl of this excvlient ;n.ti-
tution held their anniversa►y spring festival, at !he Freemasons' Ta-
vern, Great Queen-street. The Duke of Gordon presided on the oc-
casion, by the express command of his Majesty. His Gina: %as sup-
ported on his right by Lord Colville and the Lord Advocate of Scot-
land, and on his left by Lord Montague and Lord William Graham.
Among the other guests were observed Baron Oraliarn„ the retir,,d
Judge, the Hon. Charles Douglas, Sir Gabriel Wood, Ban. the Hon.
William Fraser, General M•Donncl of Glengarry, Sir James M Grior,
Surgeon General to the Forces, Sir Peter Laurie, Sir ittelard
the Bev. Edward Irving, it.c.

The Noble emotassmr, in proposing the King's health, with tour
times four, announced a donation of one hundred guineas from his MJ.
jesty. This communication was received with loud applause. a• v,as
aho the announcement of 251. trona the Queen, and 54.11. from Prince
Leopold. Several other liberal sums followed, and the whole atmou .t
contributed was upwards of 0001.

In the course of the toasts, the health of Baron Graham was given
was given with great cordiality, and that venerable person paid that he
owed to t.ngland his birth, his shoes, and his stockings, and mom other
portion of dress, to which he needed not then more particularly al-
lude; but to Scotland be owed that vigour, both of constitutioa and
mind, which now enabled him, at the very advanced age of 86, to njoy
so gratifying a scene as the present. ',Great applause.)
The next toast was "The Lord Advocate and the Steward,"

The LEARNED LOAD chiefly expressed his acknowledgments. He
had hitherto found the office of Steward a sinecure; but he hoped that,
when, In the reforming spirit of the day, h was proposed to abolish all
sinecure offices, this would not be included in the number.

Among the other tosets was the " Corporation of London," and Sir
PETER LAURIE. while returning thanks, stated, aa an instance of the
benefits resulting from this ihs,itution. that, out of 10 000 persons who
were relieved last year, in the pat ish of St. Marylebone, not more than
20 were natives of Scotland.

Mis► Hughes, of Covatt G tarn Theatre, sma from the gallery se-
veral airs, in so exquisite a ►tyle as to call forth the animated plaudits
of the whole come any, and m.ke even the stern countenance of tL e
Rev. Edward Irving himselt confess the influence of " dulcet ante•."
Mr. T. Cooke was varticul illy humeurous in a mock Italian air. and
it were needless to observe, th .t the melodies of Caledonia were given
in all their native sweetness by Mr. Broadhurst. The scene altoge-
ther was peculiarly gratifying, blending as it did the cause of benevo-
lence with all the most inciting attributes of festivity from " air. n
song" to the pibroch of the mountain strath. The company did n..t
separate till a late hour ; and there was not an individual present who
did not appear to enjoy the Sitting moments under the auspices of his
Grace 01 Gordon.

DUBLIN; FRIDAY, April 1.3.

TRIAL OF MR. DILLON FOlt THE VIOLATION OF MISS

IItIZCLL.
This extraordinary case, which has attracted ao modt pdnful ante don
was opened yesterday at the Commission, by Air. Bennet, who stated
that both the parties were of the greatest respectability. The prosecu-
trix, Miss Frisell, became acquainted with Mr. Dillon, about tao years
ago. The prisoner was then absent for some time from Dublin, and
returned there about October last, and soon after met Miss Frisell, at a
party where the intimacy was renewed. Next day be visited her at the
house of Dr. 0' R:ordan, in biolesworth- street, where she resided with her
cousin, Mrs. O'Reottlan. lie continued to pay her considerable atten-
tion, and made overtures of marriage. The lady having the greatest eon-
Pence in him, and being much attached, agreed to take a walk with bin,
N Friday the Sth of Nov. last. They walked towards the suburbs, when,
es the day became very wet, they were obliged to take shelter in a
Mall house for some hours, during which rime he renewed his tares-
likes of attachment. At last a coach was sent for, Into which they
pt ; bat instead of bringing her home, he directed the coachmin to go
to a house in Capel-street, which turned out to be one of bad
character. The lady suspecting nothing, was induced to enter to dry
bet clothes. The parties were shown up to a back drawing room,
They had dinner, and that being ended, she expressed her anxiety to go
neter suspected that any thing improper could inter the
Bled of this gentleman, and he said, wait for a few mint Les, and I will
and procure a coach, and he then left the room, and remained oat
about fifteen minutes. He did not on his return bring u coach. What he
was doing, or where he went during the time, we of cour.e have not been
able to discover. He returned into tho room where Miss Frisell was,
and said, " the evening is very fine, and suppose we walk bone to.
godlier." They had no wine, and he ordered a bottle of port, which was
accordingly brought up. Having drank wine of the wine, and filled
wine in a glass for her, he said to her that it had a particular tame, and
that she should allow him to mix some wine and water. She complied
with reluctance ; and she bad not taken the wine and water many mi-
nutes, when she found herself become exceedingly sick. " Oh," said
he, " there is nothing the matter." This happened at eight in the
evening, and she had not drank it for many minutes, when she fell into
a state of unconsciousness. The learned counsel proceeded to state, that
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whilst she was in this condition die prisoner at the bar effected his
purpose ; and that when she recovered in the course of the night to a
state of consciousness, he repeated his outrage, and succeeded by violence.
—This case was established by the evidence of the young lady, which
we cannot now detail. The jut,' found the prisoner Guilty, with an
earnest recommendation of mercy. The learned Judge, atter stating
that the Court could not comply with the recommendation. passed stn.
tence of Death—to be hanged on the 7th of May, and the body to he
handed to the surgeons for dissection.