Star.
London, England, 1830-07-01 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our Correspondent, who has furnished us with information con-
nected with the promulgation of Christian Knowledge, in Prince
Edward's Island. is requested to call at our Office. The unavoidable
occupation of our columns, on the high political topics of the day,
has compelled us to defer the insertion of other communications—
particularly those on Algiers, and on the Country Banks. We ex-
pect however, to be able to commence our notices of these com-
munications, and of the periodical literature of the month, to-
morrow.

This day despatches were received at the Foreign
Office in Downing-street, from their Excellencies the
Right Hon. Lord ST vA ar DE ROTIISA Y, our Ambassa-
dor at Paris ; and from the Hon. Sir Cli ARLES BAGOT,
our Ambassador at Hague.

We have received, by express, the Gazette de France
of yesterday's date, and other papers and letters from
Paris of Tuesday night. We are thus enabled to com-
municate to our readers, that the elections of the Col-
leges of the arrondissements had ended : and the anti-
ministerial party had, in all, obtained one hundred and
thirty three deputies, against fifty seven ministerial ones.!,

',come evidently necessary. But, as was likewise hinted
,by Mr. B noun it A It, are they not, in so doing, incurring
la similar hazard of disappointment, to that which a para-
graph above shows, to have resulted to the Royalist
French Administration, under almost similar circum-
stances? and will the Elections actually terminate so ad-
vantageously to their views as they suppose ?

We consider that Viscount GODEILICII spoke more
nearly what the interests of the country required last
night, than any other individual who addressed the
House ; for he stated that " the commerce, finance, and
agriculture of the country, all seemed to him in such con-
fusion, as to render it impossible for Parliament to ad-
journ ;" and this we consider as the argument which
should have been held up as paramount to all others.
Important as the question of the Regency undoubtedly
is, and no one with common sense can doubt of its great
importance, still, any interruption to the public business
at the present moment, we consider as much more
vitally involving the dearest interests of the country.
To postpone relief in some way to the commercial in-
terests of the country, is really like postponing relief to
a pauper exhausted and expiring from hunger.

The discussions which have occurred, on the subject
of granting to the West India interest, some diminution
in the duties on West India produce, strange as the
opinion may appear, are, we think, really of more in-
terest td the nation, than what has occurred on a more
high-sounding topic. We are of opinion that the West
India interest has no peculiar claims for exclusive pro-
tection; but we consider that the favour offered to
it is really of so metaphysical a description,
as not possible to render any other interest jealous.—
We have used the term metaphysical ; but perhaps we
should class the proposed relief, as belonging more pro-
perly to the higher branches of mathematical research ;
and it really would require much previous instruction in
such pursuits, to understand its advantages. A diminu-
tion in the duties on Sugar, without distinguishing in
what part of the world it was grown, is what the
interests of British Commerce required ; and what
the interests of British consumers of Sugar required ;
and this single measure would have effected more
for the relief of the British people generally, than any
measure which has yet engaged the attention of Parlia-
ment. We relieve most efficiently—even in the indivi-
dual charities of common life—when we can give the
means of gainful industry to the applicant ; and we
maintain, that the only efficient relief which can be af-
forded to our ruined commercial population, is to give
them the means of exerting their energies, by rendering'
articles of foreign commerce gainful to those who have
their property so employed, and invitingito those who now
keep it in bags ; which it may startle some to hear the

declaration—but it is nevertheless true—no article of
foreign commerce now is. The relief, to be efficacious to
the nation, should be administered to the commer-
cial community—to the splendid misery of the once
proud and boastful British merchant. For through
him it will most efficiently pervade the manufacturing, the
shipping, and all the other classes of the community.
With these views, therefore, we regret the present
dissolution of Parliament, which we are sure will not im-
prove the public situation. We are not desirous of any
change of the Administration—nor of any change in the
strength of the Administration as now existing;
with less strength, they could not remain, and with more
it is probable, their good qualities in our oyes, would
diminish. As we are, however, to have a new Parlia-
ment, we hope that electors will not govern their choice
merely by what will be called party questions; or what
relate exclusively to the comparative influence of parti-
cular sets of men ; but by those questions which involve
more directly the general interests of the nation.

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The debates of last night, both in the House of Lords
and Commons, which are of deep interest, occupy the
attention of our City politicians this morning.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 92{ to 93 for the
account, opened at 93, at which price they remain steady
at present, with little doing.
I In the Foreign Market no transactions have as yet
taken place, and the prices are nominal as per yesterday.
The Estafette received this morning from Paris,
brings the Three per Cents. 80 cents. lower-77 35.
This is owing to the elections. Great fears were enter-
tained there, that some important crisis is near at hand.
The last accounts from Zante and Colin state, that
preparations were making► for the embarkation of English
troops to be sent to Greece, in order to assist the Presi-
dent in putting down the insurrections which are break-
ing out in the different provinces of that country.
Information from Trieste, 12th June, says, that the
disturbances in Albania have alarmed the Austrian Go-
vernment, who are going to establish an army of obser-
vation along the limits of the two states, in order to
repel the insurgents.
Private letters from Lisbon state, that Don Miguel has
condemned a great many officers of the line belonging to
the regiments stationed in the Alemtejo, to a long banish-
ment in Africa. These officers were arrested just as
they were going to embark for England, and are now
condemned as deserters.
CITY, HALP.PAST ONE.
The Funds have improved since the early part of the
morning. Consols which were done at 924 for the
account, may at present be quoted 931 4 ; we have no
reports or political information to communicate.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing, except in Greek
Bonds, which have receded about 1 per cent. owing to
their coming 2 per cent. lower from Holland.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. '.

Arrived at Greenock. the Funchal, Picken, from Trinidad.

Off Cape Clear, the Charles,--, from St: Kitt's.
The Susan and Jane, Norris, bound to Portland, put back to
I Liverpool, leaky, and part of her cargo thrown overboard, having
been on the Rush Bank.

DEAL, Joss 30.—Wind R.—Arrived the Vole:tie. Hunt. frost
Jamaica; British Union, Moore, from Figualra ; and Johanna
Magdalena, Fernander, from St. Übe's. Sailed the outward
booed.
Powroacouvn. Joss 30.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Cato.
Crossman, from Sierra Leone.
Pr.vasoirrst, JONS 29...—Wind S.W.
Fatarcorrn, Joys 29.—Wind W. to N.W.—Sailed the Idaillio2
packet, for Lisbon.
Bll3tOL, Jaws 30.—Arrived the City of Edinburgh, SPlOnnon,
from the Mauritius ; New Volunteer, Stewart, from Demerara;
Antigua Planter, Cherry, from Antigua; and Good Hors SIP-

tag e ; and after collatingand interpreting in their true spi-
rit, the long series of bulletins issued, . we may well vary
!the maxim of Euclid, and say—there is no royal road to
the grave. No ! Nature in every case asserts her rights;
ideath is no respecter of persons ;
as we came into the
world, so must we leave it, reduced to the same com-
!mon level. Alas I how unenviable is the lot of even
the greatest monarch in the world, when his preroga-
tives cannot purchase even momentary repose ; when
the fiat which affects the fortunes of millions can
neither quicken nor still the pulse's play. - His
Majesty's character is now matter of history, and will
be sketched by almost innumerable bands. His reign,
though marked by considerable vicissitude, and pregnant '
with events that " shook the nations with fear and won- -
der," was, upon the whole, eminently prosperous and hap- • •
py. It lasted about ten years and a half, but including
the Regency, of which he was the head, be swayed the _
sceptre nearly twenty years. When Wellington gained
the battle of Waterloo, George IV. wrote to thank him
with his own band ; and when Napoleon came " like .•
Themistocles," an exile to our shores, his Majesty was
willing to dispense even to him the rites of hospitali-
ty. Reasons of state, of course, prevailed ; and sin-
cere and anxious as his Majesty must have been to
guarantee the weary destinies of Europe, it was not
his fault that a fallen foe was consigned to the keep-
ing of Sir Hudson Lowe, and chained like Prometheus
Vinctus, on the confines "of chaos and old night."
In his person and manners, his Majesty was every inch
a king--the very beau ideal of a monarch ; and enjoyed
the reputation of being the most accomplished gentle-
man in turope. On all public occasions, nothing could
exceed the ease and dignity with which he discharged
his important duties, whether in the drawing-room or at
the council table, on the throne or at the levee ; affable
himself, he spread, as it were, an atmosphere of affability
around him, and shone the very pink of England's chi-
valry. His temper, though sufficiently sensitive, was on
the whole placable, and in more than one instance be
forgave real or supposed injuries, with a grace that
astonished the offending parties. One admirable
trait in the character of George IV. well deserves to
be prominently noticed—his nice appreciation of his
true place in the state, and the respect and deference
he uniformly evinced for the laws and the constitution.
Properly speaking, a constitutional monarch approaches
pretty nearly to a political non-entity. His ministers free
him from all responsibility by standing between the throne
and the people, and cannot be expected to advocate mea-
sures they had no share in originating. It is true a King
can change his ministers, and elevate any statesman to
the Premie;ship he pleases ; but when his choice falls
on unpopular men, Parliament immediately asserts its
privileges by thwarting their measures, and withholding
the supplies. This his late Majesty understood well ;
" he knew his bounds, and reigned content within them ;
and it is a pity his example has been hitherto thrown
away on Charles X. In reposing confidence in Polignac
and his coadjutors, his most Christian Majesty ran coun-
ter to the opinions of nearly the whole French nation;
of this ho was reminded by a majority of the Deputies,
and yet in despite of such a memorable warning, he, in a
saucy speech, suspended the functions of the legislative
bodies, and still seems determined, rather than yield, to
invoke the horrors of another revolution. What a
lease is to a tenant, a constitution is to a people ; it was
the praise of King George IV. that he invariably
acted on this noble maxim ; it is to the discredit of
King Charles, that he wishes to become a law unto him-
self; and the contrast, though flattering to our national
pride, at the same time heightens our regret for the
truly excellent monarch we have lost. Such a man as
Bonaparte would find little scope for his genius in Britain,
unless he previously subverted the constitution—an
achievement the schoolmaster has rendered impossible.
In one instance, and that a recent one, King George
alarmed the tears of a majority of his subjects ; but the
crisis was momentous, the danger imminent; the Peers
and Commons sanctioned all he did; and the future his-
torian, in narrating the battles which his fleets and ar-
mies fought and won, will give him ample credit for the
share he had in an Act which, notwithstanding the
heart-burnings it created, may be teaued the Magna
Charm of religious toleration.

TOE MAJORS AND TiIE 1111NORS AGAIN!—Bow.
STREET (Tins DAY.)—The second prosecution in the ease of
Covent.garden and Drury-lane Theatres, against the proprietor and
managers of the Tottenham-street Theatre, came on for hearing to-
day, hefote the Magistrates at this Office, according to an adjourn.
ment on Saturday last, at the instance of the prosecutors. The in-
terest, if possible, increasesas the prosecution proceeds ; and today
the Office was again crowded with individuals interested iu the
welfare of the theatrical prof:mien.
About one o'clock, Mr. Perry, the propriver of the Tottenham.
street Theatre, was called ; and having answered to his name, a
short discussion arose between Mr. Adolphu., who appeared for the
patentees, and Mr. Alley, who was Counsel for Mr. Perry, rela.
tive to the postpones', nt of the case, as Mr. Adolphus said his wit.
nesses had oot arrived. lloweva these gentlemen made 'ltch ap.
penance during the discussion, and the caw proceeded.
Mr. Alley—l wish to know, your ‘Vorships, whether all the
charges are to be proceeded upon at once ? There are three die. I
taint charges for performances, and I maintain that, in fairness,
one only ought to be proceeded with at a true. I have only had
my brief this morning. and the Counsel for the prosecution has had
months to prepare his cha-ges and witnesses.
Mr. Adolphus replied, and said, that he would pro.
teed with all the charges at once, as he had a right to do, and
as was laid down in the King against Swallow.—lt Is, said Mr.
Adolphus, every-day practice, and I will so proceed. I have been I
taunted about being merciful in certain publications.—l say our 1
proceeding as we do is a merciful proceeding.—.l could have pro-
ceeded, had I chosen, for thirty violations of the statute. If Mr.
Alley had not his brief it is not my fault.
Mr. ALLEY-1 shall not put any objections unnecessarily ; but
Imyit is cruel to proceed upon all the counts at once. lam sur-
prised to hear this proceeding called a merciful one. What the
newspapers may have said on the subject I know not.—l do not
write in them, but I am sure that the honourable gentlemen con-
nected with the press, and honourable and well-tmaning I
think they ought to be called, would not state any thing inten-
tionally improper. I have myself been spoken of, perhaps some-
times, more' severely than my vanity led me to think was fair, but
I have gcnerall experienced great kindness and courtesy.
Sir Richard Rim* with whom Mr. Halls coincided, said that
they could not prevent Mr. Adolphus proceeding as he said he in-
tended doing. They would of course use their discretion as it pro.
ceeded.
Mr. Adolphus—l shall now go on with my ease. With refer-
ence to what has passed, I beg tosay that I did not allude to pub.
lications in newspapers. I alluded to the posting-bills of the
Tottenbam-street theatre. But I mutt say that the newspaper
have never treated me with kindness—l cannot say that they have.
But I have never stooped fur their opinion. Public men mast as-
pect to be spoken of. 1 have been in public life for twenty-two
years. I have not, during that period, humbled myself to obtain
their good opinion, nor have cared much for their evil word.
I have not, however, seen anything in the newspapers reflect.
ing upon me in this case. It was to posting-bills that I referred
when I spoke before. I say again, too, that our course of pre.
ceeding is a merciful one, notwithstanding the taunts and irritating
reflections which have gone abroad. lam old enough to remember
when two respectable performers, Messre.Ohapmsnieriattie,were pro-
secuted--(3lr.Alley olsjected,Mr.Adolphuspeoceeded.) I say this re.
vival that lam about to state—l say,that I rememberwhen Mr.Bas-
ulster and Mr. Palmer were mot to prison as rogues and Twister*
for opening a theatre, and that the committal of them was just and
4•1 ; but the as is now. altered. After some further remarks,
Mr. Adolphus proceeded to say, that Mr. Perry was the proprietor
of the house which was licenced, upon his application at the ilessioas,
for stage playing—that be paid tales, rates, due. and was therefore
liable to be proceeded against. He next adverted to the point of
law upon which he wasdefeated last day, and said that apotelman
was in waiting to be examined from the Lord ChambalaW'ittidee,
woont he proposed to call as Ant witness. The PM WU proceeding
when our It.purter left.