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'ME EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17.

This day the Russian Minister, Prince Lily EN, had a
long conference with Lord Viscount PALMERSTON at the
Foreign Office, in Downing-street, where a Cabinet Council
was held at two o'clock, attended the same as yesterday,by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, Earl GREY, the Marquis of LANS-
DOW NE, Lord DURHAM, Viscount MELBOURNE, Viscount
PALMERSTON, Viscount GODERICH, the Ego.' of CARLISLE,
Viscount ALTHORP, Lord HOLLAND, Mr. CHARLES
GRANT, and the Duke of RICHMOND.

We find that the Russian force which is nearest to
Warsaw is that of General GRUM AN, whose head-quarters
are at Kowno, 120 leagues from the former city. This
corps consists of 80,000 men, and will probably be the first
that will come in contact with the Poles.

Private letters from Brussels, which we h ave this day
perused, mention that Mr. CARTWRIGHT, on his arrival
at the Hague, demanded an audience of the King of Hot.-
D, which his Majesty refused, on account of being
pressed with much business. On the 25th November,
the King gave orders for the blockade to be raised ; and
on the 27th, he changed his mind, and revoked bis previ-
ous order.

Advicee are received this morning, at the North and
South American Coffee-house, to the 12th October, from
the Agent at Buenos Ayres. The condition of the country
was much the same as on the date of the last despatch ;
and the provinces in the interior were tranquil. Trade was
dull ; and Exchange upon England 61, 61.

We find by some comments in a recent publication, that
we have not been so successful as we hoped to have been, in
making clearly intelligible our views, on the much agitated
subject of Parliamentary reform ; and we shall, therefore,
take the opportunity, to add something more to what we
have already advanced on that subject.
It is well known to be a primary essential to all wbo
attempt to prevent the misinterpretation of what they
may advance in discussion, to be very precise in
fixing the meaning of the important words, of any
proposition under examination ; and it too frequently
occurs, that for want of attention to this essential,
at the commencement of a discussion, it will be
found, on close scrutiny of what has passed at the end, that
nothing has taken place like a contest in argument, bear-
ing on one particular proposition, but a logomachy, or battle
of words, having no concentrated relevancy to any one pro-
position ; but having relevancy to matters as diverse and
separate from each other, as there is diversity in the several
individuals engaged in the contest. It is unfortunate, too,
that words lose their original and etymological meaning,
and have others attached to them, of an entirely different cha-
racter.

These are the usual impediments to the accomplishment
of clear intelligibility between disputants ; and it appears,
that what takes place on the subject of Parliamentary Re-
form, is a complete illustration of such errors. The word
Reform, certainly meant, when used by its first inventors
to form again ; which meaning does not infer any pre-
ference for an original form, unless we add to it the thing to
be reformed ; but when we do so—when we say to reform
the British Parliament—we have at once the original word
limited, or rendered more definite ; and it then means to form
again the British Parliament : which British Parliament is
supposed to be a something, having once had a definite form
which we are about to restore. As an analogous interpreta-
tion, it may be said, that the word reform, in this sense, is
nearly synonymous with re-edify, or build over again
■nd to re-edify St. Paul's, would be to build St. Paul's
again, according to the original plan of Sir CHRIS-
,
7'OPHER WREN. This, then, is one definite interpretation
of the phrase reform of the British Parliament, to which it is
so important at present to attach a clear interpretation. But
is the one we have given the only current one, in the writings
of disputants on these subjects ? We shall find, on the
contrary, that there are at least two other meanings to the
phrase continually in use.
One set of politicians must maintain, judging by their de.
veloped opinions, that to reform Parliament, means to new
form Parliament; or give to the thing denominated a Parlia-
ment, a form which it never bad. This application of the
phrase has two points of difference ;—it involves,
not only a different interpretation of the word reform,
but a different and rather more indefinite interpretation of
the term Pritish Parliament. The verb to reform they in-
terpret to new form ; and the noun Parliament they in-
teipret generally, a national representative assembly or
congress. Their meaning of the word reform does not so
closely approximate to the meaning of the word re-edify I but
their meaning may be illustrated by the analogy we before