Star.
London, England, 1824-12-13 00:00:00

CRACOW, NOVEMBER 13.

Oar little State has enjoyed, since its foundation in
1815, a continually increasing prosperity. The Go-
vernment consifts of twelve Senators and a President,
ho were first appointed by the High Allied Powers,
and have managed our affairs since the 15th July, 1816.
—The Government is bound to lay its accounts and
budget every year before the Representatives. We have
no military, except our militia. Almost every year the
'Representative Assembly has abolished some taxes, and
considerably diminished others, while the revenue has
been constantly on the increase. In tire course of tF^
present year, the Senate, in consideration of the
unparalleled reduction in the prices of agricultural
produce, has granted the farmers of the State do-
mains a remission of three sixteenths of their rent.
—ln fine, our Govei rimeot has, in the course of eight
years, imposed no new taxes, but a 3 we have said, has
abolished or reduced many old ones, has paid off
.115,000 Polish fi,rins of the old debt of the State, in-
vested nearly 600,000 florins of new capital on landed
securities, and has expended besides considerable suits
in the construction of canals round the whole city, and
in other useful works. We may, therefore, justly say,
that both the Executive Government and the National
Representatives deserve the sincere thanks of all our
fellow-eh izens.
STUTTG A RD. NOVEMBER za.

The hope of seeing the lines of Custom-houses be-
tween the German States gradually abolished, seems
mere and more likely to be realised. The conviction
seems to gain ground, that national prosper itt, founded
on flourishing agriculture, trade, and manufactures, is
the purest source of a productive reietue, and that, to
obtain this, reciprocal freedom of importation and ex-
portation are required. Baron Von Zu Rhim has ar-
rived here as Commissioner from Bavaria, and the ne-
gociations are said to have already commenced We
expect also, M. Von Hoffmann, Counsellor of State to
the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, who was here a
few weeks ago, and M. Nebenius, Counsellor of State
of Baden, who has been detained by the inundations of
the rivers. The negotiations between Wurtemburg
and Switzerland proceed without interruption And with
every prospect of a satisfactory result.

Lisbon Gazettes, to the 2d instant, have readied
They contain the copy of a Royal Decree, by which
four Captains, a Lieutenant, and an Ensign of the 9th
Regiment of Cavalry, are dismissed from the service.
The crime with which they are charged, is disaffection
to the Government, and an attempt to seduce the other
Officers of the Regiment. By another Decree, and for
the sameoffence, a Major of the Veterans of the province
of Ti as os Montes, is subjected to a similar penalty.

The Gazelle of the 22d, contains a long extract from
a Royal Decree relative to the management of the
Royal Forests, the deterioration and decay of which
ate said to be highly prejudicial to the Navy.

The French Papers contain a somewhat singular do-
cument from Lisb ;it is called a Royal Ordonnance-of
Reformation, and purports to be the aew Constitution
given by the KING of Portugal to his subjects. Ac-
cording to this article, of the authenticity of which we
confess we have doubts, the three estates of the Clergy,
the Nobles, and the Deputies of the Cities and Towns,
are to be convoked separately, and to deliberate with
closed doors ; they are to have no legislative power,
and will only have the privilege of being consulted or
heard by the KING. It is added, that'the Chamber of
the Clergy will consist of twenty or twenty-five persons;
that of the Nobility, of about thirty ; and the third
order, of about forty Deputies.

At one of the late meetings of the Roman Catholic
Association, Mr. SHIEL commenced his speech with an
anecdote, in which he insinuated that Mr. PEEL when
Secretary for Ireland, refused to reward a poor fisher-
man, with a large family, who had saved six persons
from shipwreck, on the ground that the applicant was
not a Protestant. We felt from the first that this was
an unjust attack on the Right Honourable Secretary;
and we now find, by the Waterford mail, that so far was
Mr. Palm froin not rewarding the man, that he was
offered either a sum of money,or to have his name entereJ
for the first suitable situation that offered ; Kerevan,
for that was his name, preferred the former, and 301
was presented to him. It may be added, that he WAS
not a fisherman, and had not a large family.

Princess Few:mite attended Divine Service at th•
Royal German Chapel, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. KUIiPER.
Yesterday the Princess SOPHIA. visited the Duke of
YORK.
-Mr. Secretary ANNING transacted business on Sa-
turday, at the Foreign-Office, Downing-street.
lits Excellency Prince POLIONAC, the firnba;sador
of France to our Court, left town foe Paris an Saturday, where
it it rumoured that he is about to tate the Office of Minister for
Foreign Affairs.
Friday night, aft'er the breaking up of the Cabinet
Council, Mr. WItING, a King's !Messenger, was sent off from the
Foreign Office, with dispatches for St. Petersburgh.