Star.
London, England, 1831-04-23 00:00:00

" GENTLEMEN OF TUE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

" I thank you for the provision which you have made for
the maintenance of the honour and dignity of the crown ;
and I oiler you my special acknowledgments for the arrange-
ments which you have made for the state and comfort of my
Royal Consort.

" I have also to thank you for the supplies which you
have furnished for the public service, and I have observed
with satisfaction that you have endeavoured to introduce
the strictest economy in every branch of that service, and
I trust that the attention of the New Parliament which
I shall forthwith direct to be called, will be applied un-
ceasingly to that important subject.
" MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

" I am happy to inform you that the friendly intercourse
which subsists between myself and Foreign Powers affords
the beat hope of the continuance of peace ; to preserve which,
my most anxious endeavours shall be constantly directed.
"MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

"In resolving to have recourse to the eense of my
people, in the present circumstances of the country, I have
been influenced only by a paternal anxiety for the con-
tentment and happiness of my subjects—to promote which,
I rely confidently on your continued and zealous assistance.

" My pleasure is that this Parliament be prorogued till
Tuesday the 10th of May."

The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose and said,—" It is
his MAJESTY'S pleasure that this Parliament be prorogued
to Tuesday the 10th of May; and the Parliament is pro-
rogued to that day accordingly."

How different are the humours of men. King Philippe
rides on horseback to address his parliament. Washington
used to go in an old coach. But the King of England, as
a mark of respect, goes in a state-coach, drawn by eight
horses, surrounded by his household, all in dresses of cere-
mony, and renders the procession one of the most gorgeous
pageants of his royal office.
The Emperor Nicholas, not having enough upon his hands
near home, has, forsooth, been dictating to the Swiss. He
imitates our boroughmongers, and calls the Swiss reforms
revolutionary, insisting on all the constitutions of 1815.
Now his relations with Switzerland are such as those of the
Emperor of Japan ; and what should we think of that poten-
tate, if he bad issued such a mandate. It proves, however,
that the Polish is a European war; for, in fact, the routed
army of Diebitsch was only to bait at Warsaw, and then
dine in Belgium, and perhaps sup in Switzerland.
In the late Division, what a want of respect and con-
!sideration it was in a Member for Devonshire, Dorset-
shire, Northumberland, Exeter, Northamptonshire, Buck-
inghamshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Cambridge,
Hampshire, Leicester, Oxford University, Shrewsbury,
Leicestershire, Radnorshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland,
Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Pembrokeshire, Berkshire,
Lancashire, Cornwall, Bedfordshire, Carmarthenshire, Bris-
tol, Liverpool, Carnarvonshire, and other places of reputable
constituency, to bring them into contact with Old Sarum,
Gatton, Heytesbury, Seaford, &c. &c. It was a foul dis-
grace, which the Independent Electors must now remove,—
and they ought to be grateful to Ministers for affording
them the opportunity. Let the rotten boroughs form one
side of the House and the real representatives the other;
and as the people will do their duty, we may reasonably
calculate on a majority of One Hundred in the New Parlia-
ment in favour of the ever-to-be-honoured Reform Bill.
Thousands of unfortunates are fleeing the country to the
wilds of Canada, and other distant realms. Never in any
season did so many ship-loads of our hopeless population
leave their native country from various ports in the king-
dom. Yet such is the result of the government of the
Boroughmongers, and there are those among them who in-
sult us by boasting of the prosperity, which their system has
produced. It is true there are great public improvements,
but produced by universal mortgage and debt. Loans of
800 millions ought to afford something to shew in return;
so also the town-debts, the parish-debts, the road-debts,
the bridge-debts, the harbour-debts, the canal-debts, the
corporate-debts, ought to shew something to those who pay
the interest. Can a man in possession of a splendid house
be therefore called rich, if be is debtor for every thing in
it ? We pay 30 millions of interest, for war-debts, by
which we gained some expensive colonies, and it is doubtful
whether we do not pay as much more for the other debts
for which we have roads, canals, &c.—ls this prosperity ?
—ls it not rather a gross deception I—ls it not a fact which
justifies the nation in getting rid of a set of leeches who
have contrived to pocket a per centage on most of these
loans and jobs I But the other fact that thousands are
fleeing from a country in which there are nearly 20 acres to
every family in it, says more than volumes could say of the
expiring system!