Star.
London, England, 1831-09-27 00:00:00

CALL OF TEA HOUSE.

Mr. O'CONNELL said, he should to-morrow move that
the call of the house be postponed till Wednesday week.—
(Hear, hear. and no, no.)
Sir R. VIVIAN said, he should then move that it be
discharged. (Hear.)

_
TEWRROICZNIIRIC WRIT.
Mr. ROBINSON said, this writ ought to be suspended
till the house was scquainted with the evidence. (Hear.)—
He moved, that it be suspended for one week. After the
report respecting the Shelf, Assessor, Re. what conAdence
could they have in a new election till the case was inquired
into?

Mr. JONES should not oppose the suspension of the
writ, but he thought there was not good ground for It ; he
supported the motion that the Shefifril conduct might be
duly investigated, and his honour cleared.
Lard A LTHORP said, it was rather hard to sart4:11:::
because the Sheriff' misconducted himself, the free
were to be without a representative. (Hear.) He should
oppose the motion. (Hear.)
A MEMBER observed, that the Sheriff wu a serious
man, and, therefore, not the most competent man ; and
he explained how he happened to be appointed,_ wider.
special circumstances, to the Shrievalty. To agree to this
motion would be to punish the freeholders, not the Sheriff.
Was that just?
Mr. R. GORDON thought that what had been sail sm.
peeing tbi Sheriff was ground for sUpporting the motion;
they ought to see what We evidence stated.
Mr. HUNT said, they ought to suspend the Sheriff; and
not the writ. How could the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
a great Reformer, think of sending another writ to such in.
competent and pietist hands.
Mt. R. FERGUSON observed, that with his knowledge
of the evidence, he was ready to agree that the writ should
forthwith Issue, but many Members requiring to see the
evidence, he should prefer the adoption of the motion.
Mr. BERNAL said, if the incompetency of the Sherif
were an objection, they would have to wait till next spring,
when new Sheriffs were appointed ; u the removal of the
Sheriffs would be unprecedented. There was no case for
the postpmement.
Mr. O'CONNELL said, Sheriffs in Ireland bad been
superseded—the power of removal by the Crown existed.
Whether this were a cue for it he did Dot know • be was
in ignorance of the evidence. If the conduct of de Sherif
were to guide them, they ought to wait fir It.
Mr. D. BROWNE said, they ought to wait for the eel.
deuce. If an address for the removal or theSlueiff were
proposed he should support it.
The ATTORNEY.GENERAL observed that be wu
not aware of any course by which the 'Crown could espereedi
a Sheriff. It would be a most daftness power foe the
Crown to exercise. At aU events, it was heed apes the
county to deprive them of a Member in eethespenee of the
ialinof a Suit
.IAVETHERELL said be differed a Etas from the
Attorney General's doctrine, that ats address trus the
House of COmmons would not be ground enough lbw the
Nueva' of a Sheriff:
Ur. CAMPBELL supported the issuing of the writ.

Mr. ROBINSON replied, after which the gallery was
cleared fora divhdon. The numbers were—
For the motion . - 24
Against It . . - 120

klajoriainst- 98
sir It. PRICE thenty musedag !
that the writ for Pembroke•
shire be !med.

Mr. HUNT odd that the 'WM sad unda•aherif ought
to be called to the bar t and lie weak! make that motion

hereafter.-31wlenima to, and new vrrit ordwed.
Mr. R GORDON moved that the Lords' amendments
• to the lunatics' asylum regulation hill be mad.

'groan SILL.
Lord ALTHORP then said, in reply to a question from
Mr. O'Connell, that it was not intended to move the se-
cond reading of the Irish reform bill till the Scotch re.
form bill had gone t►rough the committee t that, he con-
sidered, would be the cause meet convenient to the house.
(Hear, hear.)
A• Member gave notice that in the committee on the
Scotch reform bill be should move a clause for the represen-
tation of the universities of Scotland in Parliament. (Hear.)

LUYATIC ASYLUMS.
Mr. GORDON then detailed what were the Lords'
amendments to the lunatics' bill. He regretted that the
Lords had intro4ced the alteration which appeared in the
bill ; for the bill had been all over the country, and had re-
ceived the sanction of the several proprietors of asylums.—
One alteration was that two " barristers " should accompany
the commissioners to inspect these asylums. Was not that
an extraordinary alteration ? (Hear, hear.) He, however,
concluded with moving that the amendment be read a
second time.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the House de-
served great credit for the attention which had been de-
voted to this Important subject. He then defended the
amendments.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the only question
appeared to him to be that the Great Seal ought not to be
d to the appointment of the eotumisaioners to prevent
and he would suggest that the great seal should be
armed with that jurisdiction.
lona G. SOMERSET said be thought a system which
had been hitherto prosperous ought to continue ; and the
Lord Chancellor should not be entrusted with the care of
the lunatics, u he did not think, in the multitude of his at.
tentiona in public duties, that h.: could give the commissions
his personal superintendence. He dissented from the amend.
ments of the Lords.

Mr. DEN3I AN explained.
Mr. HUME said he thought the amendments had very
much lessened the bill. He thought it extraordinary, that
after hating so long been debating how they should abridge
the labours sf tho Lord Chancellor, they should now think
of involving upon him additional duties.
Mr. 0. LAMB though the antendmonts of the Lords
might be agreed to without any risk to the public. (Cries
of Question.)
Ake some further conversation the gallery war cleared,
and the house divided, when there were—

Aycs ••• • .... .. 65
Noes .... .... •.• • eti
—..—

Majority against Ministers .. 11
The rest of the Lords' Amendments were disposed of
A Committee was then appointed to state to their lord.
ships the reasons for which the House bad not agreed to ■ooze
of their amendments.

COLLEGE 07 DLIITSOOTIL
Mr. STANLEY having moved for a Committee of Sup-
ply on the Grant to the College of Maynooth,
Mr. H. GRATTAN rose to state that he had received in-
formation that the signatures annexed to a petition presented
by the hon. member for Oaford against the continuance of
the grant were forgeries.
Sir R. MILTS said he had received the petition by post
from a Parson totally unknown to him.
After a few words from Mr. Hume and Mr. O'Con-
nni.i. on this subject,
Mr. PERCEVAL said he rose to move an amendment to
the motion of the right boo. gentleman (Mr. Stanley). lie
objected to their voting away public money to Maynooth
Collette. because they, u a Protestant Parliament, must
regard that Institution as propagating falsehood and cot-
ropiest of the word of Goa. He deprecated liberalism in
religion ; be considered it as being infidelity, and as hold-
ing the scales before the world equally between Goo and
Satan. He, therefor*, begged to move as an intendment,
" That it is expedient that the grant be not confined after
this year."
Mr. HILL, we believe, supported the amendment.
Mr. STANLEY said, be was cenvineed the hen..miever
acted oily under • aeon of duty ; but he (Max 11.)esoildisred
the grant in the light, not of a religion, but eta partly poli-
tical one. He should not consent to it, if he believed that by
se doing he was affirming his belief in the Catholic faith,
or contributing to its propagation. It had been inundsoed
as a political grant by Mr. Pitt so far back as 1790, and as
such had received the su of Mr. Burke and Mr.
Grattan, and of every sat g administration, including
that, at the head of which was a near relative of the hon.
gentleman. Previously the Irish Catholics intended for the
Church enjoyed on the continent the benefit of certain en-
dowments granted them for the purpose of education, but
sf which they were deprived subsequently to the introduction
of the peaswt grant. Buunaparts tared to give the Irish
CalhelfM destined to the Church a gratuitous education at
Pads; but the Irish priesthood, grateful for the liberality
of Pedistneet, rejected the offer, and declared, that who-
awe had the bemoan to accept of it, would not be received
smog them. He thought, therefore, that they had a claim
es the home, on the score of gratitude. Bat the hen.
MOM could net believe that if the grant were refused, taw
would be one Catholic Priest who would receive edneedeo
fiat lees, or that then would be one Protestant the then be
the United lOogiena. He denied that the edemas to-
esived at Mayneeth was, as some asserted, of an bids
bind. He begirt to call the attention of the house to the
plot to the wear/rims, which was no more the religion
of the state then the Henan Catholic. On 'the ground that
this was not a religious but a political question, that it was
not injurious to the Protestant establishment—for in his con-
science he believed It would be beneficial to that establish-
ment—he must support the grant. (Hear.)
BirJOHN NEWPORT supported the grant, and said,
Mr. Pereeval, when Minister, had declared that he felt
himself bound by strict justice to support the grant to the
extent it existed at the time of the Union. He was confident
that Parliament could not take a step that would be more
injurious to the established Church of Ireland than refusing
the grant.
Sir R. INGLIS said Parliament since the Union had
changed the sums granted to all other institutions In Ire-
land, and end ely discontinued some of them, and he thought
the prtsent grant should not be considered a matter of coin.
pact ; but was perfectly open to discussion and amendment,
and be should taxibilly su the amendment.
Mr. T. LEPROY not understand bow, as a mem-
ber of that house, which was bound to support a &reran
religion, and se a member of that religion, and having
eweep that the Catholic religion was latrous, he could
support such a grant, and should, therefore, vote for the
amendment.

Lord RIANDEVILLE thought it was the object of go-
vernment m dirproy the established eburdt in Ireland, and
shou
Mr d oppose-die grant.
l.
C. PICLRA ht supported the amendment. He thought
the education at Maynsoth waa dastmatelve of Christianity.
Sir R, BATSON believed that the oollep of Ilaynooth
did: no pod, and be would not OXISINt to support it.
The

For the motion
Against it

Majority ..... .. 101
The house went into C.conmiueo.

Mr. STANLEY moved that 9,0001. be granted to the
C Mr. el
Mr. 0'001117171t said, the state of the people of Ire-
land was sof nolidendy regarded. The people of
England
changed then opinions they left the C=
chunk and a Protestant episcopacy in its place;
the potpie el lostland became Presbyterians, and they esti-
laid lb* religion in their own country. The pimple of
bind adhered to the Catholic voligion, and the tentegnence
was, that they had long mitred dm meet denntable sods of
Metalaws that wane eves heeled eadvasityezpin .11e
to see the dir—it was no man
oroeld he tolled on to sweet the religion anoline.s
If he omenitied to the polity r P be t
ant, it was beee•
it was the day Gewernameit to make it; hit he y
despised it. If it had • hem refined, then would in three
in Ireland be a general refusal to pay tithes.
rrivearlir, hear.) He should vote for the grant, but felt no
anxiety about it. (Neu, hoar.)
Mr. GORDON the grant, which was to go to
'lam Hon. toor.Mng sool.destroylnn dectsinen
t• Preeteded nue that dee Cathille vellgisa
mid Clergy wets enemies of truth and the Government.

There being peat laughter in the house the Hon. Gent.
MK those who laughed at esek sluesesents would laugh at
the isoi•Nrey with the to it kit band, and at the as.
mesh with hfuolOo—(limseenes laughter.)
ovorne those theological discus.
• stispotini wd7rruld cal tend to exasperate
eellikese mehmselty.—(Hear.) To the grant be
am& would be unjust and kapide. He thought the
esppieters of the Protestant der& in Ireland eheoltast re.
the miserable pitman for the mimaties
ithirtJeCelagy h Wand. while they taxed the Whe-
lks fee* poem sweet of the Protestant clergy. (Hear.)
Mr. LIMY apposed the pant.
Mr. PZTRE seppmed the pest, and repeal* that re.
*isms dhputatioui were introdated into that Houle. whit
they ought to )
do there was to comdder what was beet he the
▪ Hear.
Mr. URGE opposed the grant, as calculated, after the
great healing measure, to sustain dissensions in Ireland, es.
pecially as be saw no corresponding disposition on the pet
of the Government to support the interest of the Protestant
religion in Ireland.
Lord EBRINGTON said be could not consent to with.
bold this grant.
Mr. WYSE spoke to the like effect.
Mr. H. GRATTAN supported the grant; 2:0 Inert.
duets were educated by it.
The grant was then allowed.
The house baring resumed,
The churches building act paned through a committee,
and the report was ordered to be ressieed on Friday next.

SCOTCH REFORM BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it
was the intention of the Government to give three additional
members to Scotland; and that Peebleshire and Selkhkshire
were to remain represented, and each to return a member;
and that the eastern Fife boroughs should continue to return
members as heretofore.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of. and the
house adjourned at three o'clock.

:mstmemmeimm•lNNENe
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS.

SUN DAY.—The streets of Paris on Sunday, were
enlivened by the hawkers crying about the superb
speech of M. Thies, (who is just now the crack
man of the Ministers), the magnificent speech of
M. Sebsatiani, and the magnanimous discourse
of M. Guisot. Thousands of copies of these
speeches have been given away at the Prefecture
of Police to the hawkers, and while they stun
you with their cries, simultaneous orders have
been given to arrest all the hawkers who cry
about the speeches of Generals Lafayette and
Lamarque.
PIEDMONT.-TU/tIN, SniT. 18.
PRIV•TE COARESPON atm E.—The population
of the arrondissement of Savone have never forgot-
ten that they formed part of the French Depart-
ment of Montenotte. Thence the suspicion which
they inspire in King Charles-Albert. The garrison
of the fort of Savone has just been increased from
1400 men to 2400. There is a talk besides of re-
establishing the fine military line of Santo-Spirito
between Pietra and Aracio. where General Schirer
with a handful of French soldiers, arrested, in 1796
the Austrian army, commanded by General Der-
win* ; officers of engineers are at this moment
upon the spot to recom.oitre the various points to
be fortified. Charles-Albert wbo takes this excess
of precaution against France, leaves his frontiers
nearly uncoveted on the side of Austrian-Lom-
bardy : these dispositions, and the principles of
the Prime Minister, reveal the existence of the
treatise which bind the Court of Turin to the Ca-
binet of Vienna.

SWITZRRLAND, SEPT. 17.
PRIVATE LETTRR.—Complete anarchy reigns
in the canton of Bile ; the peasantry of the two
parties fight between them : the Diet appears un-
'certain upon the measures which it will take to
u, an end to this critical situation of the Canton.
Between 11 and 12 o'clock this morning, the
dram beat to arms in Bile, and all foreigners were
made to quit the city. The report was current
that the inhabitants of Bile would go to the suc-
icour of the Communes which remain submitted to
them, and ',high were attacked by those of the
party from Liestal ; but that the Government,l
which had promised the Diet not to make any
more use of its troops, found itself very embarras-
sed. Affairs are daily more complicated ; it is
impossible to foresee how all will end. However,
as the troops are numerous (it is said 4,000 men)
which the Diet will send into the canton of Bile,
I will draw near the extreme frontier and encamp
upon the line which separates Switzerland from
France, we shall soon see what will pass. I have
lbiq isstant learnt (2 o'clock p. m.) that 1,000 men
the amps of Bile have left the city with some
*on o artillery : they are divided into three
columns in front of the city, and a strong reserve
rentains near the gates ; we are ignorant whether
they will proceed upon Liestal, or whether it is
a sample measure of precaution. We are assured
that yesterday morning, four battalions of troops
from Zurich, of the Helvetian confederation,
made their entry at Liestal: the officers and
under-officers, and citizens, appeared disposed in
favour of the city of Bile; it is not the same,
with the soldiers, who are of the country, and
make common cause with the patriots of Lintel
and other rural communes.

Sii ce yesterday, we have remarked at the offices
a number of workmen employed in making op
packages, contAining the discourses of blesses.
Thiess and Guisot, which are dispatched by whole-
sale into all the Dept tments.—Le Temps.
After four days of struggle, the Ministry has
obtained 221 voices against 136: bringing back
the former days in despite of one revolution.
Thus nothing is changed under the administration
of Charles X. except Charles X. To return from
this digressiop. The Parliamentary majority,
principle of all force, is then on the side of the
Ministry. The Ministry will henceforth be
strong. But where is then that power of the ma-
jority? Its force is not in it ; it is exterior; it is
found in the elements which it represents.—
What are those elements ? The electoral colleges.
The force is in the people. It is the people alone
who give it. And the people are put oat of the
cause. Whence then does M. Perier draw his
force ? From the colleges ; they contain 120,000
electors ; by counting the constrained votes, 40,000
have voted for the Ministers ; that is all which they
have to back them. After that, let the Ministry
make the most of its strength. Let it move with
such a lever 32 millions of citizens. It will move
nothing but—compassion !—Revohrtioss.
It is affirmed that the conference of London
has just signified to our Government, that if on the
10th of next October, the day when the armistice
concluded between Holland and Belgium will ex-
pire. King Leopold has not accepted the condition.
laid dowp by the anterior Peewee* Itasesia, Prus-
sia, and Anemia were aniski-t. suptsit with arms
the demands of King William. Holland, it is
Known, has just assembled at the month of the
Scheldt 30,000 seen, which, encamped upon the
banks of the Isle of Wakheren, and upon the left
bank of the river, may, is a march or two, arrive

under the walls of Ghent and Bruges. It is &Doom
besides that the two Cabinets of Viennasad Ik
have both repulsed the envoys of Leopold, and thit
the Emperor Nicholas has signified a sort of di,.
position which gives no hopes of more tolerance.,
It is added, also, that immediately after tl:e
Sakti= of which we have just spokes], the council
of ministers was assembled under the presidenre of
the King. The discussion wan long and stormy ;
the most cutting division was manifested anicaz,t
the seven ministers present.—Revolution.

Within two days, the telegraph, it is said, has
done nothing but signalise to the Minister of the
Interior despatches from the Prefects, which en.
nounce general discontentment, from the
I ence with which our Cabinet has treated the affairs
of Poland. The country reckoned upon the influ-
ence of the King of the French, representative r,f
thirty-two millions of men, to save the brave Pt .k ~
—Le Globe.

The strong place of Modlin, still in the power a
the Polish army, may support a long siege, arnl
give it facility to maintain itself during sere:Al
months in the country of Plozk, with out prevent.
ing, for all that, the Rutsians from occupying all
the rest of Poland, new that the taking of Wa:saa•
will render disposable more than half of their forces.
However, the Polish watriqrs are right in no:
laying down their arms before that the polities:
destiny of their country is fixed, for they are worthy
representatives by the blood which they have shed
for it. A German Journal believes, that a confer-
ence will be assembled at Berlin, forth* affairs of
Poland. Already Field Marshal Count Clam,
has left Vienna for that city, with a commission
from the Austrian Cabinet.—Messager.
We read in the Dauphinois : " Midnight.—
Riotous assemblies, preceded by Bags in mourning,
have just alarmed the city. Vive is Pelogne
was the rallying cry. They repeated from all
parts : Mort a Perier ! Mort a Sebastiani! To
the lantern the tyrants of all nations! We are
assured that the Government has been informed
that the Polish army has refused to submit."--
National.

What has passed since the day when the Magis-
trates of Warsaw, proceeding to the gates of the
city, presented bread and salt to the Grand Duke
Michael ! Three versions circulate on that subject.
Some saythatGeneralKruckowiecki having refused
to follow the army, remained at Warsaw,where be
had endeavoured to renew the catastrophe of
Moscow. Others affirm, that General Romarino
h.d returned to Praga, after having completely
beaten General Rosen, and taken from him all
the magazioes,had seized the bridge at the m.iment
when the Russians entered the city by the opposite
side, and bad iwakened the energy of the inha-
bitants, who, profiting from the barricades garnished
with cannon, which defended every street, and
the fortified bastions which commanded every
place, had made a desperate defence. That news
is a kind of confirmation of the first. Nothing is
known of the Polish army beyond that which we
have learnt from the news of Vienna and Berlin.
All agree in representing, at the date of the Bth,
the army as having made its submission, and pro-
ceeding into the palatinate of Flock, to wait the
orders of the Emperor Nicholas. But private
letters represent it as decided to continue the strug-
gle ; though we can only understand the possibility
of still defending its independence upon the Haute.
Vistula.
Letters from Franefort announce that Field-
Marshal Paskewitsch is dead, in consequence of a
contusion which he received in the chest. That
wound is acknowledged by the Russian bulletins :
they even inform us that, front the second day of
the attack, the command in chief was remitted to
General Toll. The death of the successor of
Diebitscb bas nothing in it which should astonish ;
it is known that such is generally the result of all
wounds made by cannon balls. The Russians ap
pear, however, to have experienced frightful losses;
a letter from Berlin affirms, that the taking of
Warsaw has cost them 28,000 men. That amount
does not appear to us exaggerated, especially from
what Dr. Antomarcbi says, in a letter which we
have before us, and from which we give the follow-
ing passage :—Schillno (near Thorn), Sept. 11.
" Decided to quit Warsaw, on the morning of the
6th, I was awakened by the report of cannon. A
formidable attack was made upon the whole line of
the Polish batteries which defended the city, and
it lasted from five o'clock in the morning until half
past four in the afternoon.
The carnage was horrible : the Rumbas counted
from 16,000 to 17,000 men hors de combat. The
Poles counted in all a thousand men and some
amlens taken. Twenty-six thousand cannon shot,
Coogreve rockets, many grenades and bombs were
thrown into the enemies map by the Polish bane-
deur The Russians had taken one of the nume-
rous batteries which defended the city, but at two
o'clock in the afternoon, that same battery was half
retaken by the brave Poles. Seeing this unex-
pected attack, I wished to know the issue of the
battle, and did not quit until five o'clock in the
evening. The army is in the best possible spirit.—
La Revolution.

Not content with having broken the bolt of
Louie-Philippe, publicly exposed, the people of La
Seyne (near Toulon) pulled down, in the night of
the 11 th, the tri-coloured flags which were placed
near that bust.—Joantal du Commerce.

A report is current that the posts of the National
Guard will be rodleced by the troops of the line ;
that that of the Place Dauphine will be occupied
by the municipal guard.—Revolution.
A private letter from Paris says :—The distress-
ing scenes in the streets of Paris to which I have
directed your attention in my recent letters, have
been succeeded by yet more distressing, and indeed
allicting discussions in the Chamber of Deputies.
The mere caxaille frequenters of souse low cabaret
on the exterior Boulevards of Paris, would have
evinced in their drunken revels over Macon s ice
and cigars, more attention to the decencies of life,
and the convesances of society than the deputies
of France. For two days the debates were con-
ducted in so low a attain of personal acrimony and
of Billingsgate volubility, that all moderate men
became sick, all basset men of all parties were
pained, and no gyitleinan could allude to the sub-
ject without pity or horror. ‘I That's a lie," cried
one. " You are a liar," exclaimed another. " I
never said what you accuse me of sayieg," said
M. Latta, and the Minister of Commerce replied,
"Whyot you said it to me." The President of the
was sensed of being an arum of Charles
L U. d'Argest wile put On his defence. Gou-
rd Lafayette was stymied of embarrassing the
march of the Government by hie intrigues agskist

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foreign Governments, and even Louis-Philippe of
having encouraged the expedition of the Spanish
refugees against the Peninsula in the autumn of
last year. M. Guizot was accused of having ac-
tually
paid persons to make mobs, and M. Perier. .
of being so alarmed at the presence of Louis Bona-
page's son in the capital, that he had implored
Hortense, as she valued her own life and the peace
of France, to quit Paris and proceed to England.
A letter from Paris gives the following analysis
of the Chamber of Deputies :-
1. There voted for the Minister .. .. 221
2. Oi the thirty Members to be elected, there will be
Ministerial
3. Of the forty-three Deputies who were 111, •c. give
the Minister 33

And the Minister will have a total of ... 250
On the other hand—

1. There voted against the Minister ... ... 135
2. Then thirty Members refused to vote, al they con-
sidered the vote Illegal 30
3. 01 the thirty Members to be elected, there are
anti-ministerial
4. Of the forty-three Deputies who were ill, &c. give
to the Oppodtion 20

And the Opposition will have a total of ... 2U9
VIENNA, SEPT. Ib.—Since yesterday the cholera has
began to spread rapidly here; this evening the number of
victims already amounts to hundreds; his Majesty never-
theless honoured the theatre with his presence, and to-day,
so far as is known, had no farther measures taken for his
own safety and that of the family.

THE EVENING STAR.

ONE o'Ci.ocx, Taus 116,77 L—Thermometer, 70. Ba.
meter, 29.• i. Weather, fair, and cloudy. Wind S.

An absurd belief prevails, and is expressed with
gravity, even by men of general good sense, that
the stygnation of trade is owing to the Reform
Bill ! So whimsical an assertion is an addition to
the thousand proofs, that though man is a reason-
ing, yet he is not a rational animal. For the last
five or six years, we have heard the stagnation
ascribed to every variety of cause, by persons who
can see no further than the breadth of their own
counters, or, in the more common phrase, not fur-
ther than their noses. The Ironmasters of Staf-
fordshire, at length, begin to unfold, what ought
never to have been a mystery to the lowest degree
of intelligence. The Country Bankers have un-
derstood it well enough ; and it is a subject on
which we have often descanted in the
The primary cause of the present stagnation was the
panic of December 1825, which spread the same
ruin through the commercial world, as the recent
hurricane in Barbadoes has spread through that
island. It extirpated the commercial elite in all
branches of trade, and crippled and injured aU
others, except those selfish reptiles who escaped,
just as a savage who lived in a cave might have
escaped from the hurricane.

Then, instead of this devastation being corrected
by measures of relief, the ignorant ministers of
the day, and their servile parliament insulted the
sufferers, and imposed restrictions which aggra-
vated the calamity. In the same perverse spirit,
Peel's bill was pamed,and this was the coop de grace
to all commercial enterprise in Britain. The delete:
rions consequences proceeded gradually, and they
had accumulated to an intolerable degree, when
the Wellington administration were expelled,
owing to insulting declarations on this very subject
made in Parliament.

Circumstances, or the erroneous views of theo-
rists, and of the aristocracy generally, prevented
the present Ministers, by an unhappy fatuity,
from taking the currency into its earliest considera-
tion. The pressure on trade and industry in con-
sequence increased during the past winter; and
the Reform Bill being simultaneous, too many
short-sighted persons have, with miserable
and ludicrous imbecility of understanding,
ascribed the general depression to the Re.
form Bill itself as a cause ! It is no -great
compliment to the measure to assert, that we
verily believe so small dispray of anxiety about the
Bill has aruthe Bisellnhasincaminds diofa certain calibre,
chat of thlreeir,
returns and profits, so they have sagaciously con-
cluded that when it has passed, the age of wealth
trill return again !
There are no arrivals to-day from the North of
Germany ; and the only novelties in regard to the
lateresting Polish question, are afforded by some
extracts, given exclusively in this paper, from the
Path journals of Saturday and Sunday. It ap-
pears beyond question, that the Polish Government
and army propose to prolong the contest ; and the
COOTIIIItIB losses of the Russians, and the imprac-
licalulity of carrying on a war in such a country,
against the thole population, renders the success of
the Russians more than doubtful. If the Poles
are to be subdued, it must be by liberal concessions,
voluntarily made; and it is a gross insult on the
Polish people, and on all Europe, to read the
boasting about imperial clemency—for the Poles
do not require pity or clemency, but justice. They.
'COr provoked to take up arms by positive wrongs ;
dud if these had been redressed, Russia, in an un-
iu,t, profitless, and inglorious war, would not have
lost two or three hundred thousand men in a few
months, and sacrificed her bravest officers and im-
mense treasures. The alternative was the simple
"oral justice, and this must now be respected, or
Poland will prove the grave of Russian power.
We particularly direct the attention of our readers
'" an interesting colloquy in another page ; and
.llsu to the letter of Dr. Antomarchi, which we have
extracted from a Paris paper—both of them proving
the impossibility of co tiering the heroic Poles.
We record with poignant grief the account of
the calamity which bas befallen the flourishing and
interesting island of Barbadoes, where Nature
works spinet human industry, and the geographi;

eel advantages of the most windward position.—
Within memory, the prosperity of the inhabitants
has been blighted two or three times by the same
cause ; but this last visitation appears to be the
most overwhelming. Much anxiety prevails for
the receipt of further amounts; and also for ac-
counts from then neighbouring islands.
SECOND EDITION

HALF-PAST THREE CYCLOCK.
We hasten to present to the public the contents
of the Hamborgh papers of Friday, just received,
containing the Polish account of the late conflict
at Warsaw, and information relative to the subs*.

sapient movements and determinations of the
Poles :
Csamow, !MPS. 15.—Our Courier cattalos three °facial
reports from the camp of General Itosycki. One of these
reports, atter detailing a variety of *knishes with General
Rudiger, proceeds as follows:
" Yesterday we arrived at Know, and to.dav we
were joined by Captain Niessoki of the artitioey,l
who arrived from Modlln, with Intelligence that on I
the ith instant, the combined hostile army begun to
attack Warsaw at eight o'clock In the awning.—
The two battalions :of the 13th, and one battalion of the
Bth regiment, under Gen. Bowittski, defended themselves
in the Wola barriers, when the enemy's attack
was most impetuous. The first trenches had been
already taken. and the enemy was already forcing
his way upon the ramparts, when General Ryblaski
arrived with a brigade, and killed and wounded upwards of
10,000 men.

On the following d the 7th, Marshal Pasinwitach
summoned the city, declaring that he would plant
of artillery against it. The summons not having
the desired effect, at one o'clock in the
the Russians had pressed forward at all eime.
between the Jerusalem and Mokotow berries', aidbeam
the Wola barriers and the Laboratory. Bet **Nth mgt.
ment of infantry offered resistance upon every point;
at eleven o'clock in the evening, the stock elms&
On the following day the army evacuated the capital
fear that the firs which had broken out in the suburb=
spread and destroy the city walls.
A temporary armistice followed, and the enemy desisted
from Anther operations. The loss of the Russians exceeds
12,000 men. Generals Geismar, Geebedsakol4 Uleiolt,
and almost all the commanding aims are wounded.—
Marshal Paskewitsch histatelf has reselved a se-
vere contusion. The Government the members of the
Chambers, and all public flusetionaries; 'Wilsey, ammuni-
tion, and every material of defence. Lave been removed to
Medlin. from whence the Conunander.in-a*f, General
Malachowaki, has sent hither the following ceder t—
" I have the honour to inform you, General, that in
consequence of an armistice occasioned by the evassation
of Warsaw, hostile operations have been far the
present sus .dW. Yon will plisse to issue the
necessary or• observing, however, that nothing that henhappened releases us from the strict observance of every
measure dictated by military vigilance. I have also to
inform you, that Gen. Krnkowlodd hes resigned the dig-
nity of President of the National Government, and bee
now no longer any official authority in the country.
With respect to further details, you will have to act ae.
cording to the instructions which will be communicated to
you by Captain Niesaokoc.
The enemy, weakened by severe losses before Warsaw
will be obliged, if he attempt to retain possession of that
city to garrison it with half kis army. So hag as the go.
moment is not in direct communican with the palatinates
of Bales*, Croon, and flandomir. the president of these
and such of the national representatives as were
atPalaorZ-quarters, will be invested with supreme authority
General Romarino, who marched from Prager on the 22d of
August, pursued the corps of General Golow 'nand Rosen,
whom he defeated twice at Law and M awed
then pursued the remnant on the 30th, 12=1w of
Meese, LilewskL
A Supplement to the Courier contains the proclemation
of Gen. Rosycki in which he calla upon the Poles
not to consider the period of the armistice ss one
of repose, bat to employ it in rowing fee renewed sabres,
at recempar eke hmispendeaseof desk sessay. The aides-
silty of the Pelee," hs says, is net anima to Warsaw;
the shame etthelristula, the Niemen, the er, the Bug,
and the Dana, have, in sutler times, witoswed the heroism
of the NM pestle. We must not forget our duty, to de-
fend to the iset drop of our bleed, the last puma hot oleos
native WV

PoLISK Faoxszsa, Sleet. 17.—Acoett N all 110-
counts, the Polish troops that left Wane, hem lobes up a
hostile position in the neighbourhood of Mainri ia-
closyn. The appearance of a Imer paper, the Mimi
Gamine, at Modlin, is attributed to NM 4:4: the
Members of the Diet, who have accemprded the army.
The lint number, which has lust appeared, amain a pm.
&nation atiireseed to the Polish nation, can *pen an
arable of bearing arms to matinee the str
From Augustowo we learn that, someiX ago, a small
detachment of Polish patriots arrived there. The Russian
garrison of Augustowo retreated on the int appearance
of the Poles, whose force had been greatly exaggerated
but they soon returned, drove the Insurgents out, of wDom
many were taken and punished with death.—presui'm
State Gazette.
Biar.ss, they. Ill. Private letters from Warsawrnz
means gives up the cause of the Poke as lest, but a
that to keep and guard Warsaw will be an immense
burden to the Russian army i nay, the Pollak pumas go
so far as to assert, that the =raft of Warsaw
was only a stratagem, to satin Paskewitedi into a same,
from which he will not extricate biateeN whilst great loss.
It is said that the (hand Duke Michael wide in War-
(aw, in the same capacity as Constantine did Were.
THREE O'CLOCK.' I
Bank Stock, shut. Three per Cent. Reduced, shot.
Three per Cent. Consols, s2j f. Three and a Half per
Cent. 1018, shut. Three and a Half per Cent. Red.
shut. Three and a Half per Cent. New, 89} Four
per Cent. 1828, shut. Long Annuities, Jan. 1860, shut.
Annuities, Ott. 1850, shut t do. Van. 1880,—.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY MEETING,
A very numerous body of the Noblemen, Gentlemen, and
Freeholders, of the county of Middlesex. was held this day,
at the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, for of peti:
tioning the House of Lords to pass the Reform The
Sherif& presided on the occasion, and at half past twelve
o'clock tie great TOM was crowded. On the platform, Mr.
Hume, Mr. Sergeant Pell, Sir Wilks Scott, Mr. Wakley.
Mr F. Burdett, Ac. Ac. appeared. The following resolu-
tions were then severally pat, and carried without a dis-
sentient voice t

1. That we have a fill same upon our patriotic King,
sad we duly estimele hie smithy with the public feeling,
sad that we esalideady Viet Iteflitikiskisty will neglect
no legal amens Wide his to to the rights
and re-setalikh the ty of his people.
I. That his 11114kofs lihdaters deserve the best thanks
of the C•mesemityher their besot and comprehensive plan
of reform g sodfee their able as well as persevering eser.
Lions to per the flame Mu a law.
3. That the peat mime sod impartasce, which we attach
to the Rine 11111, arises hem err grin conviction, that it
mehistbe Reposimadvis Oohs people to idiot those
amps eel ametiovadem, which the community has such
just noses es doh,.
4. That M the "Mee of this Nesting the piece and well
being of the eseemmalor degiseasies ibe Reform Bill sow
before the House et lab a law, while yet the
public Wed is salimmed by bops, in ait state to reader
the worlds, ot he povideas
6. That a petition be prommied to the Rouse of Lords,
founded upon the above ressiedeas. That the petition now
read be such petition.
6. That the Duke of Sussex from his upright, tibial
and patriotic mations in the cause of Reform, be requested
to present our petition, and support its prayer by every
means in his power.
memmesmosemmemmeem
BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.

This mining most nuatsrooe sod vopeesslie meeting
of the Ideagmees of the Berengh et ilsathirailt woo held la
the Town Rai, W. Ellis, Besk la the allmir. In the parrot
essidheMg she pretritty pealiming ila Howe of
Lire hum el the Memo PK Vim aetalwaras ad.
dammed ha shie maw by Mr. Mithesdatn. Jim Dr. Zo-
rn , Ikon eft Paw* r. and ether spoken
ma raid* wassly pray Ming the Own of Lords On prol
the lame 1111 yids all panels dive" was inenhassily
adolited• •t

GLUT RURRICANS IN ?HZ WEST INDIES.

We yesterday gave the first reports on this me-
lancholy subject, and beneath, present to our
readers all the circumstances which have yet
transpired.
On the 11th of August a most dreadful hurri-
cane visited Barbadoes, by which every house was
either destroyed or injured, and the place rendered
one entire desert. Oistens, Holetown, Speigh-
town, and Bridgetown, all suffered alike. The loss
of life was enormous, but no accurate statement
could be obtained at the date of the accounts leaving.
Forty of the military in the barracks perished.
The Government House was unroofed, and the
Governor saved his life only by taking refuge
in the cellar. The Custom-house was blown
down; all the churches were much damaged, St.
Paul's and St. Mary's being entirely destroyed.
The island presented one wreck of houses,
crops, and property, and the miserable survivors
were occupied in dragging from the ruins the
mangled bodies of their families and friends. In-
formation has been despatched to the other islands
for food and aid, as every thing at Barbadoes was
destroyed. The mills were all blown to atoms,
trees torn up by the roots, and everfcrop utterly
ruined. This tremendous hurricane was felt at
Dominica, St. Vincent's, and other islands; but
not to the extent above mentioned. The town of
Roseau was, however, almost inundated by the
breaking in of the sea. Great damage was done
to the shipping at Barbadoes. Private letters es-
timate the number of the dead at three thousand
persons.

ANTIGUA, AVG. 20, 2 P. sr. —Just as the
Lady Turner was preparing to get under weigh,
the Duke of York army vessel arrived from Bar-1
badoes with despatches, banging the distressing
account of one of the most devastating hurricanes
that had ever been experienced in the West Indies
having visited that island on the Ilth inst. Not a
house uninjured, and the most part levelled with
the ground. The loss of lives is calculated at
3,000, which, it is to be hoped, may be exagge-
rated. The custom-house is blown down, and the
churches and hospital materially damaged. About
SO of His Majesty's troops were killed. The Go-
vernor of Barbadoes has written to the neighbour-
ing island. for lumber and provisions. You may
form some idea of the miserable condition of the
inhabitants when they are in want of the latter, of
which, generally, they have a superabundance.—
From the shortness of time allowed me to write,
you must consider this letter for the information of
the subscribers to Lloyd's.
From the Barbadoes Globe of the 15th of
August :—We are enabled to resume the publica-
tion of our paper by issuing a half sheet to-day.
That we printed none on Thursday, is owing to the
awful calamity which, on the morning of that day,
laid the whole country in a confused mass of ruins.
Our life having been spared. and our office but
partially damaged, the duty of telling the tale of
affliction, however harrowing to our feelings,
must be performed • but to convey to the distant
ruder a correct idea of the scene of devastation
before us is a task impossible to In accomplished.
Wherever we turn our eye, the desolation and
misery presented to the view bid defiance to the
power of language to pourtray them in adequate
terms. Barbadoes was never in such a condition
since the year 1783. The hurricane of that time
might have exceeded in duration, but not in vio-
lence, the one of Thursday last: the damage suffer-
ed is perhaps equal in extent—tbe number of lives
lost is at present incalcuable.
The appearance of Wednesday evening was in-
dicative of• unsettled weather, and many persons
prognosticated that there would be a gale before
the morning; but few anticipated a visitation so
dreadful. The wind was at times rather high,
and about ten o'clock there a as a shower of rain,
which was succeeded by a calm : after this, a
dense mass of clouds gathered, and remained for
some time suspended in gloom. At 12, they
burst in a severe squall, which was followed by a
heavy rain. At this period there was a smart
breeze from the N. E. and the wind began to
increase. In two hours, it blew a tremendous
gale, but moderated for a short time, when
it suddenly became more violent, and was a
perfect hurricane at S o'clock. Now the week of
destruction commenced. From this h..ur until 5
it raged with unpiralleled violence, whilst thel,
lightning would at intervals cast a momentary but
horrid glare on the mangled objects around. The'
houses were either levelled with the earth or tel.
roofed ; the largest trees torn from their roots, Or
broken as Leeds. Numerous individuals were bu-
ried under the ruine, or exposed without a shelter
to the pelting of the storm, and threatened skit
instant death at each successive blast that burl.
ed the shattered fragments in every direction.
The majestic c coa-nut-tree would be tossed
to and fro as a withe, then snapped off with
an appalling crash, or driven f,om the earth with
terrific force. The wind had now veered to E.
back to N. and to N.W. again it shifted; end blew
fiercely from E. veered to S.E. and about 6 o'clock
burst from S.W. with renewed violence, accom-
panied by torrents of rain. Once more the burn.
cane raged, but there was little standing to en-
counter its fury. For two hours the wind and rain
continued thus; and it is easier to conceive than
to describe the suffering of those unfortunate be-
ings who were all this time destitute of even the
slightest shelter to screen them from the contend-
ing elements. The bodily and meotal torture of
those who were in health must have been excruci-
ating; but what must that have been of delicate
females who had been lingering on a bed of sick-
ness—and many of these there were—some in the
open fields, separated from their relatives and
friends, and in a state of nudity ? Helpless infants,
too, were in like manner torn from the arms of
their distracted parents.
When the light of day dawned through the
dreadful gloom of the subsiding tempest, the de-
vastation of the country exhibited a heart-rending
picture. The dreadful bowling of the winds, and
the crashing of the falling ruins having ceased the
shrieks of the affrighted, and the groans of the
wounded and dying, broke in mournful sounds and
pitiable accents on the ears of the hoe tnsfortunata
survivors. Those wbo had sufficient strength re-
maining, commenced a sorrowful search for the

respective members of their families, some of whose
lifeless bodies were disinterred from the ruins to
be transferred to another grave, whilst mangled
forms of others were dragged forth, frightful from
their bruises, and making the hearts of their sym-
pathistng relatives bleed with anguish. The fields,
which the day before presented so luxur;ant an ap-
pearance, were completely changed into a desert—
neither canes, corn, nor provisions, with a few
inconsiderable exceptions, having been left in the
ground. The houses as well as windmills some
thrown down, parts of them conveyed to an asto-
nishing distance, and costly furniture destroyed w
materially injured. Oistins', Hole-town, Speighes-
town, and Bridgetown, have all suffered equally,
there not being a single house in the island stand-
ing uninjured. A few certainly are only partially
damaged, but many which at first sight appear to
have escaped, are found, on closer examination, to
be in a condition that would be imiwnently dan-
gerous either in heavy rains or strong winds. Z.e
barracks and hospital at St. Ann's have suffered in
common with other buildings, and we under,tand
more than forty of His Majesty's troops lost their
lives, besides many women and children ; the
number of wounded is immense.

On a future oceasion, we may give a detailed
account of the numerous deaths that have occur-
red, and of the almost innumerable dangerous
wounds indicted ; but as we cennot do so at pre-
sent with any degree of accuracy, we abstain
from inserting those that have come to our kno 4 -
ledge. The scenes of horror in the churches baffle
all description : there the dead and dying havt
been borne from different places—there the bruised
have been taken for surgical assistance. The bo-
dies of all the killed, however, have not yet been
recovered from the heaps of stone under which
they were crushed; and as putrefaction has already
taken plane, we are threatened with the additional
calamity of a deadly pestilence.
The churches and chapels throughout the island
have suffered each to a greater or less extent. The
sacred edifice in St. James's was injured less than
any other. The Cathedral and St. Mary's were
deprived of the greater part of their roofs, the
organ of the latter was blown to atoms ; St.
Paul's and St. Matthetv's were nearly totally de-
stroyed. Goverment-house was unroofed, and
otherwi e injured, and his Excellency the Governor
obliged to take refuge in the cellar. King's-
house, the girls' school, and the common gaol,
were seriously damaged : the boys' school was
partially injured, and the Custom-house was blown
down. But to particularize would be a prepos-
terous attempt, when every house, and all parts of
the island, have, in some respect or other, shared
in the general destruction.
The merchants, although sufferers themselves to
a considerable extent, have spurned the opportu-
of demanding an increase in the price of provisions.
Care should be taken to prevent any unfeeling
huckster from profiting unfairly by this libe-
rality.
His Excellency the Governor called a meeting
of the Honourable Board of Council for to-day.--
We have not been informed of the result of their
deliberations.

It will be seen that H. D. de Wald, esq. has
generously come forward for the assistance of the
poor and destitute, with a spontaneous offer of ten
barrels of lour; lard as the vestry have mule an
appeal to the public, we trust there are many
others who will lose no time in contibuting to the
relief of their wretched fellow-beings.
The Barbados' Mercury of the 16th says,—
" We are sorry to state that the island of St. Vin-
cent has not escaped the late hurl icane. An arrival
from thence announces that considerable injury has
been done both to the island and shipping.'
A letter received from Dominica last night,
informs us that the effect of the late gale was
felt in that island, but no lives lost, nor any
very serious injury sustained. The town of
Roseau was, however, almost inundated by the
breaking in of the sea.
The schooner Perseverance returned from Gua-,
daloupe this morning. The gale was felt in that
island also, and some trifling damage done.
The same hurricane appears to have been felt
throughout the whole of the West Indies at about
the same time, but the damage was leis extensive.
-At Jamaica, the loss of property is very small.
At the Havannah, on the 14th August, a Spanish
schooner from New York, with a valuable cargo,
had been driven on shore.

The following vessels were driven on abore, and remain.
ed when the Duke of York left :

Barks—Mani and Aretisusa.
B igs—lischange, Quebec, Decagon. Mary, /Celia,
Alliance, Antoinette, Horatio Nelson, Eliza.
Brigantine--Samuel Hinds.
Schooners—Ark and Perseverance.
Mail.boats-- Montagu and Barbados.
The Heroine ase..ped with only lose of rigging: the
schooner James lost masts.

It is 8441 that St. V!licent's baa suffered equally with
Basbadoes.

Oa the I lib, the weather here wore every appearance of •
hurricane, and it was generally remarked on that day, that
if we escaped, some other island must have angered.
The Doke of York has proceeded to St. Kitt's.
Tee brigantine Heroine was in the Careenage, where sh•
remained in comparative safety, having suffered only in her
rigging. The schooner James was likewise in the Carers.
age, and sustained little damage, except the lass of masts.
The schooner Elizabeth sailed hence for Demerara on
Wednesday afternoon. She fortunately weathered the storm,
and returned here, when she was employed by his Excellency
the Governor to proceed to that colony with despatches.
The schooner Agnes, which arrived on Friday morning
from Trinidad, has also been employed in the s‘rvice of
Government.

By the programme of die University of Edin-
burgh, we observe that its lectures commence on
the Bth of November ; on which Professors Pillans
lectures on Humanity, Dumber on Greek, Wallace
on Mathematics, Ritchie on Logic, Leslie ou Na-
tural Philosophy, Bell on the Law of Scotland,
and Drs. Allinson, Duncan, Hope, Home, Munro,
Hamilton, and Graham, in various branches of
Medicine. The lectures of Dr. Brown • n Rhe-
toric, Mr. Lowe on Agriculture, Dr. Chalmers on
Divinity, Dr. Brunton on Hebrew, and Mr.
Jamie-ou on Natural History commence o t the
9th and 14th. A more splendid galaxy was never
displayed in any Uniiersity.
The office of each of the public functionaries in
Rus,is is called a' Chancery.' Tnus the governor
general, the civil governor, the director of quaran-
tine, &c. all have their chanceries.

The following names have been added t., the
Drury-lane Company:—Mrs. Humby, Mrs. T.
Hill, Mr. Elton, Mr. Macready, Mr. Moss, Mr •
Freer, end though last, not least in our astintatiesk
thevsseren Many Johnstone. The opening piece
will be The Honey-noon ; and on the Menday
succeeding the Quadnepede.