Star.
London, England, 1831-01-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

MILITARY FORCE OF GREAT BRITAIN FOR 1831.
'RAPT OITICRRS.
7 Field Marshala.• I 089 Majors-
-110 Generals. 1,706 Certain'.
215 Lieutenant-Generals. 4,485 Lieutenants (Ist and 9d.)
238 Major-Generals. 1,989 Ensigns and COWL
295 Colonels.
776 Lieutenant-Colonels. 8,777 Total 011kors on Full Pay
CAVALRY.
2 Regiments of Life Guards (Ist Calmed= fanning thel
and 2d) valry of the Household
1 Regiment of Horse Guards, Blue Brigade.
7 Regiments of Dragoon Guards.
3 Regiments of Heavy Dragoons kin 9d, and 6th.)
5 Regiments of Light Dragoons (3d, 4th, 11th, 13th and 14th.)
4 Regiments of Hussan (7th, Bth, 10th and 16th.)
4 Regiments of Lancers (Bth, 12th, 16th and 17th.)
28 Regiments of Cavalry t.
Royal Hone Artillery.
Royal Waggon Train.
tannin:lM.
3 Regiments of Guards—lit, or Grenadiers; 2d, ot:Coldstream • and
3d Foot Guards, forming the infantry of. the Household Brigade.
1 Regiment of Royal Artillery.
1 Regiment of Royal Engineers.
I Regiment of Royal Staff Corps.
99 Regiments of the Linet.
1 Rifle Brigade.
2 West India Regiments.
I Ceylon Rifle ditto.
I Cape ditto ditto.
1 Royal African Colonial Corps.
1 Royal Malta Frneible Regiment.
5 Royal Veteran Companies for service in New South Wales, and
-- Newfoundland.

117 MILITAIT DIPARTWINTS.
Department.
Ordnance, Commissariat, Assistant urtermaster-Generars, Medical,
Paymaster-General's, and Chaplains'
• Ft ekia-MAILSIIALI.—His Royal H ghoess the Duke of Canal:ridge,
K.G. G.C.B. &c. his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. K.O.
K.S.P. &c. his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, K.G. G.C.B.
&c. his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, K.O. G.C.B.fice. his Grace
the Duke of Wellington, K.G. G.C.B. G.C.H. Sir A. Clarke, G.C.B.
and Right Hon. Sir S. Hulse, G.C.H.
t In the 26 Regiments of Cavalry three are Scotch and three Irish ;
and in the 99 Regiments of Infantry five are Scotch Lowland Regi.
ments, eight Highland, six Irish, and one Welsh (Royal FusUeers).
The Royal Malta Fencible Regiment is a Maltese Regiment, all com-
posed of natives ; and in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment the men only are
Ceylonese, but officered partly by English and natives. These are the
only two Foreign Regiments at present in the British service. The
whole forming an effective military force of 9,735 Cavalry, 5,104
Foot Guards, 89,399 Infantry of the line, with Artillery, making a
total of about 135,000 men, including the present levy.

BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION AND AGRICUL.
TURAL LABOURERS.

TO THE 11NG.5 MOST EXCIELLIIIT MAJESTY.

The humble Petition of the Council of the Birmingham Political
Union :

SIRE—We, your 31ajesty's sincerely dutiful and loyal subjects,
the Council of the Birmingham Political Union, beg leave humbly
to approach your Majesty with our earnest prayers and bumble re-
presentations on behalf of those unfortunate men, our fellow-subjects,
who bare lately been convicted, under Special Commissions, of acts
of incendiarism, and of riotous and illegal proceedings. And also,
on behalf of those other unfortunate men, who are about to take
their trials for similar offences.

It is unquestionable, that those unhappy individuals have been goaded
into such desperate proceedings, under the excitement and phrenzy pro.
duced by a long course of unparalleled sufferings and privations, arising
out 'of cruel and oppressive laws, some of wbich have been expressly
intended to enhance the price of bread, and others of which have been
equally calculated to beat down the price of labour.
Under the pressure of these laws, and of others equally unwise and
disastrous, the unhajSpy subjects of your Majesty have for years scarcely
been enabled to endure their unexampled sufferings. Great numbers of
them have been tossed from difficulty to difficulty, and from a state of
precarious and ilhrewarded employment to a state of utter destitution.
They have struggled on for year after year under the influence of hope,
constantly disappointed, and constantly diminishing, until at last the
reiterated declarations of your Majesty's late Ministers—first, that no
distress existed, and then that no relief could be afforded—have posi-
tively driven them to despair.
We respectfully submit to your Majesty, that your Majesty's pre-
sent Ministers have publicly acknowledged that the wrongs, diffi-
eulties, and distresses of your Majesty's faithful and loyal people
have been occasioned by the mahadministration of public affairs,
and that such distresses have tended much to produce guilt and mis-
conduct; and we cannot but lament that these great truths have
not been sufficiently borne in mind by your Majesty's Ministers
in adopting the course which they have thought fit to pursue to-
wards the unhappy men in question. We are of opinion that the
extreme penalty of the law ought not to be inflicted upon men
convicted under such drcumstancee. We think also, that in adml.
nistering any punishment whatever, due regard should be had to the
dubitable character of evidence produced by the powerful Influence of
large pecuniary rewards, which may tempt one man to commit perjury,
and another to seduce his neighbours into crime, for, without this
precaution, it is certain that, under such eircumstancas, no man's life
can be secure.

We therefore humbly hope, and most earnestly pray, that your Ma-
styj_e will be graciously pleased to take these representations into your
Royal consideration; and, following the dictates of your own merciful
and benevolent heart. to extend the Royal Clemency to all the unfor.
tunate men who hare been, or who may be, convicted under the afore-
said lipaial Commissions.
And we, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, &c.
In the name arid on the behalf of the Council of the
Birmingham Political Union,
THOMAS ATTWOOD, Chairman,
CHARLES JONES, Secrets, y, pro temp.
Birmingham, Jan. 6, 1831.

Viscount Palmerston left town on Wednesday morning
for Cambridge.

NBV/GATR AND LIKADENHALL—THIS DAY.
Beef, Motion. and Pork, were in good supply this morning. Veal
was not so pltnnful, and was dearer. Beef and Mutton were lower.
By the Carease.—Per stone of labs.
Beet 21 2d 2s 104 5s 4411 Mutton 21 6d Ss Od 3s 6d
Veal 3. 6d 4s Sd Ss 4d Pork 3s Od 3s id 4,4 d

FA RIIINCDON MARKET—THIS DAY.
Prices per lb. to the consumer :
Bsa►—Finest Roasting, 7d to 74d. Bulling. 4id and 3d. Equal
quantity of each, 6d Rump Steaks. od. Beet Steaks, bd. Rump of
Bed. 61d 7d. Wa►man Marron—Leg, 7did and 64. Loin, 64d.
Saddle, hid. Shoulder, Sd sod Sid. Haunch, 7111. Neck. 3d. and
34d. Breast. 44. Vast—leg. Tid to ad Fillet. 10d and 1014.
Loin. Yd. Breast, 6d. Neck, 74 Shoulder, 6d and Sid. Poss. 6id
to ad per lb.