Star.
London, England, 1831-06-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL._

A letter from d'Ata;jue;Contaia;the following The
day before yesterday consternation was all at once spread in
the palace. It was said that despatches arrived from Lisbon,
announcing that on the approach of the French squadron, an
insurrection had burst out in that city, that Don Miguel had
fled, and that Donna Maria was proclaimed. I know that
up to this moment no other despatch has arrived to confirm
or contradict this news." Our correspondence from Lisbon,
without announcing events so decisive, appear at least to
presage them. The report spread at the Palace of Aran.
juez was without doubt premature, but the despatches received
from Pottugal 'gives reason to expect such a denouement.
No doubt that if our squadron, in place of giving chime to
some vessels stationed before the Azores, had blockaded
Lisbon, and had threatened it with a serious attack, Don
Miguel would have been overthrown by the population ris-
ing in that great city. But that would have provoked a
popular revolution ! . . . However, in spite of the extreme
precautions taken against that untoward event, we hope that
the simple view of our flag will give to the oppressed Portu-
guese the signal of their deliverance. Should it be thus,
how will Al. Casimir Perier justify before the Holy Alliance
that involuntary act of Propagandism ?—Le Nohow!.
PORTUGAL.

FURTHER CAPTURES OP PORTUGUESE VES-
SELS BY THE FRENCH SQUADRON.

Extract from the Agent to Lloyd's at Lisbon. dated the
13th of June :

" We are sorry to announce the following captures by the
French squadron :
" The brig Constante, from Pan; the ship Nova Pa.
carte, and the ship elicidade, from Pdaranham ; the
Slid Sire des Roche Venietiors, from Madeira.
" The St. Christo, from Fayal, was taken, but released.
and sent in with prisoners from vessels taken. The above
are the only ones which we can aseerain positively to have
been detained, but reports state that others have fallen into
their hands. As soon as we can give any certain informa-
tion, will lose no time in communicating it.
" The British schooner, Providence, Clark, chartered by
the Portuguese Government, sailed yesterday. It is said
she is to cruize for homeward bound ships, to warn them of
their danger, and to go to the western Islands, to ascertain
what is going on there. The schooner Hiram, Gibson, en-
gaged
by the Government for a similar purpose, has been de-
tainetl by Captain Phillipps, of his Majesty's ship Ariadne.
said to be caused by her not having proper clearances.
"A Portuguese squadron, consisting of a line-of-battle
ship, three heavy frigates, two corvettes, and two brigs, ale
preparing for sea, with a dispatch quite unusual here ; but
their destination is not known."

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15.

Nothing further has been allowed to transpire
About the Belgic Negociation with Prince LEO-
POLD. Lord Possolt BY and General BELLIARD
have left Brussels ; and the Belgians must fight
It out with the Dutch, or yield to the conditions
prescribed by the mediators.

How differently ;Wm uEL treated the complaints
of WILLIAM the FOURTH and Louis PHILIPPE!
He knew his men, and acted accordingly. He
could distinguish between an English broadside
and a Perier goose-quill, and he has given quill
for quill. The Brazilians appear to be rigtbt, for
PEDRO and 111 icit: EL seem to understand one ano-
her. It is strange that Pena° should have passed
!he Azores, where his subjects, or those of his
.;:lughter, are fighting the family battles. Munich,
however, is out of harm's way, and in the luxuries
a that finest city in Europe, he may forget the
onemus cares of Royalty. Perhaps he is that rare
z,ing—a Portuguese philosopher—and proposes to
'hsplay his wisdom by his contempt of ambition.—
May NI to tiEL soon join him in his retreat.
Among the extracts which we are enabled to
exclusively, this day, from the French Jour-

nals, we recommend the attention of our Readers
to one, under the head " Poland," from the Cour-
rier Francais, not!cing a paragraph in La Ga-
zette d' Augsburg, relative to mediatorial nego•
elation. between England, France, and Russia, for
the protection of Poland.

We give place to-day to a Polish Proclamation,
of May 13, prepared previously to the expedition
of SKRYZNECKI, and which has found its way
into the French papers. It contains appeals to the
patriotism of all the Polish Provinces, enslaved
by Russian subalterns, in that nervous strain of elo-
quence which befits the cause in which this insulted
people are engaged. The Government has also
made an appeal to the Powers of Europe, subse-
quently to the battle of Ostrolenka, which has been
so basely misrepresented in the Prussian, Dutch, and
some London papers, the equivocal politics of which
are well known to M M. PERIM]. and SEBASTI-
ANL In truth, retreat was the object of SK RYZ-
N ECK I. He had no ulterior design to remain 100
miles from Praga. Whatever was the loss of the
Russians, which every account makes enormous,
it now appears, on the formal testimouy of the
Polish Government, and on the indubitable honour
of Prince CZ ARTORYSKI, that of the Poles did
not exceed 2,000 men. We had previously named
3,000 on other Polish authority ; but the subsequent
arrivals of stragglers may explain the difference.
We think the Polish cause at this time stronger
than ever; for although DIEBITSCII has advanced
to Pultusk, yet it appears he has been obliged to
divide his army to counteract the Lithuanians.
The treachery of Prussia, in furnishing supplies,
alone enables him to remain in Poland.

Our Hypothesis published ten days since, that
Admiral CODRINGTON is destined for the Baltic,
receives confirmation from the opinions, and spe-
cial preparations at Portsmouth. We also infer
something from Lord Joni; RUSSELL'S admission
to the Cabinet, being aware of his Lordship's predi-
lections in favour of Liberty, abroad as well as at
home. His various Parliamentary motions, in be-
half of struggling nations, are assurances to the
Poles that they have an additional friend in the
British Cabinet. Lord BROUGHAM, Lord JOHN
R uss ELL, and some other Members of Administra-
tion, must, as friends of Liberty in general, feel, and
be inclined to render political expediency subser-
vient to principles ; and we hope, therefore, that
our irresistible naval power will for once be bene-
volently directed.
We are glad to see a volume on Poland an-
nounced by Mr. FLETCHER, of Trinity College,
Cambridge. Books on that country are scarce in
our Language, and we shall avail ourselves of it
for several days, in extracts which we are per-
suaded will gratify our readers.
The meeting of Pa yesterday elicited
DO subject of peculiar interest. Mr. MANNERS
SUTTON was re-elected Speaker, with the una-
nimous concurrence of both parties. Mr. CHARLES
WYNNE, in nominating him, took occasion to say
something about fearful changes that were pend-
ing ; and about public excitement, meaning, per-
haps, that which he had himself witnessed in
Montgomeryshire. This inclination of his pre-
judices did not, however, unfit him to be the
mover, since be had himself been a candidate
for the same office, and was the best qualified
to appreciate its duties, and speak to their past
fulfilment. Sir JAMES GRAHAM apologized for
the absence of Lord ALTHORP, owing to the
death of his mother ; and hence no public measure
was brought forward, if such had been a previous
intention. The Speaker is to be presented to the
House of Lords to-day, and the Commons will
then be constituted.

The Houses of Lords and Commons met this
day, and proceeded with the usual formalities, and
swearing in the members. At two o'clock, a
communication was made by the Lord CHAN-
CELLOR, in the presence of the Right Honourable
CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, intimating his
MAJESTY'S approbation of the choice of that Gen-
tleman as Speaker of the House of Commons.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
We understand that as Express has arrived from
Paris, with the prices of Saturday but the parti-
culars have not, as yet, transpired—but it is sup-
posed they come lower, as our Funds are not so
good, as they left off yesterday at 831 for the Ac-
count : they opened at 831, and went down to
821-83, at which price they are at present, with
little doing.
At present, nothing positive is known in regard
to Prince Coburg accepting the Crown of Belgium.
In the Foreign Market nothing doin.
TWOO'CLOCK.

In the early part of the morning, we had a re-
port that the French renter had come lower by the
Express from Paris; but this must be incorrect, by
the sudden rise of our Funds, which have improved
i per cent. The fluctuation has been—from 82j
lowest, to 831; and at present they are 83fl.
THREE O'CLOCK.

STOCK Excnawox.—Bank Stock, 2615 198;. Three per
Ct. Red. 821. Three per Ct. Consols, shut. Three and
a Half per Cent. 1818, 901. Three and a Half per
Ct. Red. 891 001. Three and a Half per Ct. New, shut.
Four per Ct. 1826, 981 9. Long Annuities, Jan. 1960,
16 15.16 1. Annuities, October, 1859, 16 13.16. India
Stock, —; ditto Bonds, 1 prem. £lOOO Exchequer Bills,
11 12; £5OO ditto, 11 12; £lOO and £2OO ditto. 11 13 ;
Advertised, 10. Consols for Account, 831 9j 31 I f 5.
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Four Polish Generals have penetr :ted into Lithu-
ania, General Gielgud, Chlapowski, Dembenski,
and Siesckowzki ; the whole of the town of Ostro-
lenka was on fire, and amongst the inhabitants
who perished were a great number of Jews, owing
to the Russians having employed them to repair
the bridge over the Nasew, and to bring them
during the battle ammunition and balls, which
they were obliged to perform, under a tremendous
discharge of grape shot from the Poles.

SPIRIT OP THE JOURNALS.
HERALD.—The " Holy Alliance," thanks to the as-
sistance and co-operation of the Governments of England
and France, thinks itself, no doubt, in a fair way to realize
its dangerous and degrading ascendancy over the affairs of
the Continent. When Mr. Canning found it his interest to
court the support of public opinion, he shook its power by
separating the councils of England from an unnatural coa-
lition with the Cabinets of despots, who have a common and
deadly hatred against the liberties of all mankind, which is
proclaimed in their protocols, and enforced by their
bayonets. But the policy of the Holy Alliance received
the shock of a greater power than that which Mr. Canning
wielded against it. It was the French revolution of last
July_ that reaction of public feeling against oppression
made the fabric of Continental despotism tremble to its
foundation. Its consequences threatened it with ruin.
The despots made a common cause to avert those conse-
quence& by military force. France, threatened by the
armies of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, was saved for
the present by the revolution of Poland, and the insur-
rections in Italy the latter have been put down by
Austrian bayonets, in the face of the delusive declara-
tion of the French Government to prevent all despotic
interference with the internal affairs of independent States.
—Under the "protection of Austrian legions, who have
trampled liberty and the declaration of France into
the dust, the executioner has shed the blood of the high-
minded Menotti, the distinguished Bora!, and hundreds of
other patriots, whom the secret promises of France lured into
resistance, and whom her shameless treachery left to their
fate. The despots, in their triumphs, show no elispo.iron to
profit by the example of mercy in punishing political offence,'
welch the French people gave them in sparing the lives of the
blood-guilty ex.blinisters of their late Bourbon tyrant. Fe-
rocious, vindictive, and sanguinary, they consider the power
of extermination as the chief privilege of conquest. From
the scaffold they proclaim their merciless doctrines by the
voice of the headsman, and show that all generous examples,
all lessons of humanity, are lost upon the regal conspirators
against the fiefdom and civilisation of the human race.
POST.—If it be said that many members of the Horse
of Commons have pledged themeelver)o their constituents to
support the reform bill of his Majesty's ministers, and that
whatever change may have taken place in the public mind or
in their own, they are bound to the literal fulfilment of
their engagement, we answer that the man who, in un-
dertaking the duty of a legislator, promised to act the
pelt of a slave, contracted one of those unfortunate obli-
gations which it would be a greater crime to fulfil
than to violate ; and that the electors who extorted
such a pledge have little right to expect that faith
should be kept with them, since by that very act they vio-
lated the trust reposed in them by the Constitution, and in.
vaded the rights of all the non-voting portion of their fellow.
subjects, by electing, not legislators for an empire, but dele-
gates of a coterie. And we further answer, that nu principle
can be more pernicious or absurd than that which permits a
nation, in a fit of temporary delirium, to consign itself
to certain and irretrievable ruin. Were we even to
admit the Reform Bill to be the perfection of human
wisdom—were we convinced that the electors of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland have been within the last two months in
the soberest and most deliberate mood, still we should deem
the doctrine of pledges, as it is advanced by the bigots of
reform, a mischievous absurdity, since nations are not always
wise, and it leaves to the nation no locus penitentio—no re.
fuge from the effects of its own occasional and transitory folly.
TlMES..—Poland, constituted on its late narrow basis,
could neither secure its own independents, nor answer any
good purpose in the balance of Eurepean states. It would
be too weak for self-protection, and too dissatisfied with
the contraction of its limits to allow repose to its neighbours.
On the other band, the Emperor, if he succeeded in sepa-
rating its cause from that of the other provinces, which it had
invited to revolt, would be disposed to curtail its rights, in or-
der to punish its hostility, if not to make it a dependent pro-
vince of his vast empire. The game at which the parties are
now playing is, therefore, one which involves an exten-
sion of the Polish kingdom, or an annihilation of the
Polish name. The address of the National Government
to their brethren is an extremely noble, dignified, and
spirited production. It describes the victories already
gained, by the almost miraculous bravery of their troops,
with a becoming pride ;—it recounts their oppressions like
men who felt the indignity more than the suffering of their
wrongs ;—and it does not disguise the fellowship of toil and
danger to which it invites their brethren.
or=monsereent
Montreal papers to the 19th May, and Quebec to
the 17th May, have been received at the North and
South American Coffee-house. The Montreal pa-
pers state that the intelligence of the defeat of the
measure, introduced by the Ministers, to impose
an additional duty on timber imported into Great
Britain from the North American Colonies, was
received at St. John's, New Brunswick, and other
parts of the colonies, with the greatest satisfaction.
A bonfire was kindled in King's-square, and loud
demonstrations from all classes of citizens evinced
the joy felt on the occasion. His Excellency the
Governor in Chief and Lady, were daily expected
in Montreal.

The first imperfect and reluctant returns of the
population of Great Britain in 1801, gave
10,942,646, to which, adding 10 per cent. for
under-returns, the true population in 1801 would
be 12 millions. The second enumeration, in 1811,
gave 12,596,803, to which, 5 per cent. added,
would be lel millions. The third gavel 4, 379,677,
to which 2i per cent added, would be l 4
lions in 1821. This gives an increase of 2i mil-
lions in 20 years. Let us try this then by past
times. Thus, in 1781, the population would have
been but 91 millions. In 1761, but In 1741,
but 5 millions. In 1721, but 4 millions. In 1701,
but 31 millions. In 1681, but 2i millions. In
1661, but 21 millions. And, in the age of Eli-
sabeth, but one million. Hence this proves the
fallacy of the past enumerations, and that no con-
clusion can be drawn from them. If Great Britain
contained six millions in the age of Elizabeth,
which is highly probable, then we get a doubling
in about 260 years ; and probably we shall find that
the returns of 1801 demand an addition of 1.5 per
cent. instead of 10, as taken above, and which
would give 12i instead of 12, or as then returned
10,942,646.
SLEEP-WALKER.—A young man by the name
of Isaac Chandler, residing in Fryeburg, State of ,
Maine, got up in his sleep, went about half a mile
to a neighbour's barn, procured a cord and bundle,
of hay, and carried them into the woods at a con-
siderable distance from the house. He then
ascended a maple-tree with the cord and hay; after
reaching a height of 28 feet, he then placed the
hay in a crotch of the tree, ascended about six feet
higher, tied the cord to a limb, and then fastened
it round his ancles, after which he swung off head
foremost, so that his head touched the top of the
hay. In this horrid situation he awoke, and with
his cries roused the nearest neighbours,who directed
their course to the place whence the noise proceed-
ed. It was about the break of day when they
arrived there, when to their astonishment they found
the young man in the situation described, suspended
by the heels 34 feet in the air. A number of
attempts were made to climb the tree to extricate
him, but it being large, without any limbs near
the bottom, and the bark smooth, they proved
ineffectual ; and he, after becoming composed
enough to relieve his situation, recovered his for-
mer posture on the limb, from which he made his
descent, loosened the cord and came down, much
to the satisfaction of himself and friends. Since
the above took place, be has been confined to his
house in consequence of the lameness occasioned
by the great exertions he must have made in ac-
complishing so curious
.a midnight enterprise.
There are more than twenty who can attest to the
foregoing relation as strictly true.—Brunswick
Herald.