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London, England, 1831-06-09 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL COUNCIL

At the meeting of the Council on Tuesday even-
ing last, a renewed discussion took place respecting
the future annual elections of the Council. Mr.
Hipkiss presented the report of the committee ap-
pointed to consider this subject, the recommenda-
tions of which were—

" That in July next the election should take
place in pretty nearly the same manner as hereto-
fore, and as prescribed by the laws of the Union ;
but that at that meeting the following plan, to regu-
late future elections, should be recommended to the
members for adoption.
Some weeks previous to the annual meeting,
the Council to elect six members of the Union, not
members of the Council, the six thus chosen, to
choose six members of the Council ; the twelve
with the president of the Council added, to make
a list of fifty names of members of the Union, who
are, in their opinion, fit and proper persons to be-
come members of the Council, such list to be
printed and distributed among the members of the
Union, who are to place a mark opposite the names
of the thirty-six persons they rote for, and deliver
It at the office of the Union a few days previous to
the annual meeting. A suitable number of scruti-
neers to be appointed to:cast up the number of
votes, and declare on whom the election bas fallen.
Members to be at liberty to substitute the name of
any person they may think proper in lieu of those
in the printed list.
Mr. ATTWOOD thought the plan worthy consi-
deration, but doubted much the propriety of getting
it passed into a law at the meeting in July. He
thought it should be well considered.
Mr. PARE disapproved the plan, he thought it
was little better than an in and in system of elec-
tion, and after the Union had declared in favour of
the ballot as a national mode of election, he thought
it was incumbent on the Union to try that mode
for the election of the Members of its own Council,
or they would fairly be open to a charge of incon-
sistency. The plan proposed by the Committee
was certainly open to suspicion, if not to fraud.
Mr. ATTWOOD said that Mr. Pare evidently
brought an independent mind to the consideration
of the subject. He agreed with him that whatet er
the plan finally adopted might be, it should be as
free from suspicion, as possible.
Mr. HINE iss thought the ballot should be tried.
Mr. Jon es thought it was very immaterial how
the Council were elected. It had worked well
under the original mode of election, and be was for
letting well alone.
Mr. 8188, Mr. TIIOMAS Werrox, and Mr.
SALT, thought the present mode very defective,
and urged the adoption of the plan recommended by
the committee. The latter gentlemen combatted
Mr. Jones's arguments against a change.
After a considerable discussion, it was resolved,
on 'the motion of Mr. Pare, that the debate be re- i
sumed next Tuesday.
Mr. C. A. Timm sox, of London, then claimed
the attention of the Council, as a member of the
Union, to the serious losses he had sustained by
the frequent arbitrary changes in the currency, and
the manner in which he had been treated by the
British parliament, when applying to them for
redress. In detailing his own case, he would be
detailing that of thousands of others who had suf-
fered from the same causes, though not, perhaps,
to the same extent.

It was resolved to call a special meeting of the
Council for Thursday evening, to take Mr. Thom-
son's case into consideration.

Before the Council rose, the following letter
was handed to the chair, by a deputation and read :
TO THE COUNCIL OF THE POLITICAL UNION.

GIKNTIEMEN,—When an individual, for the
welfare and good of his follow-creatures, gives up
his time, his talents, and almost his health, to
snatch them from impending dangers, we are led
on insensibly to the highest strain of admiration.
Admiration that, like a sun pervades and animates
each bosom, to pour the incense of gratitude upon
the altar of its adoration. Such, Gentlemen, hos
been the case with our noble and worthy chairman,
Thomas A ttwood, Esq.
But, Gentlemen, though one man may do many
and great things, a united body like your's, posses-
sing talents and resolution, must amorally sod ne-
cessarily do more.

Gentlemen, we the undersigned, admiring your
perseverance in the grand and all-engrossing topic
of political regeneration, beg, most respectfully, to
present to yei oar ardent and sincere thanks for
tiro great good +you have done, not oily to the peo-
ple of this town, but to the British nation at large.

Gentlemen, your patriotic ardour has been a
glorious example, which has most happily been
followed and approved by the great mass of the
people. It has been a magnetic needle, of such
powerful attraction, as to draw nearly all minds and
bodies into one common current of thought and
action. It has been an orb of light, which has
persed the shadows of darkness from the minds of
thousands, pouring in their stead the bright rays
of hope and knowkledge.
It has been the star of peace and unity, pub-
lishing friendship and good will to all.
Gentlemen, to you belongs the honour and glory
of having averted from this favoured land the
gloomy horrors of civil discord. For the blood of
thousands would undoubtedly ere long have stained
the earth and desolated our towns, bad not some-
thing been done.

Gentlemen, we rejoice that, (as if to second your
views,) the great Creator of the Universe has, in
such a critical moment, given to the British nation a
King whose feeling heart is open to the wants of
his people, and whose wisdom and sagacity has
placed around him, to fill the measure of his people's
desire men of such strict probity, brilliant talent, and
noble fortitude, as those who now so honourably
sway the councils of the empire.
Gentlemen, we hope and trust these noble-
minded men, headed by our patriotic Sovereign
will continue to advance intrepidly as they hitherto
hare done in their grand career of political Reform.
And may you, Gentlemen, as the strenuous sup-
porters of honest men and honest measures, still
continue your exertions, and aid them with all the
powers of your mind.—Gentlemen, we remain,
with true respect, your humble servants and ardent
admirers.

(Signed by numerous metnbets of the Union.)
1111311 MISERIES.

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL GREY, &e.
Balboa, May 30.
My Lord—l must abandon in this Letter all
thoughts of our prospective misfortunes--I have
neither leisure nor inclination to speculate on the
future while present famine stares us in the face.
" Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." The
people are threatened with destruction, and the go-
vernment is earnestly implored to save them. If
its aid is longer protracted, it is as difficult to cal-
culate as it will be impossible to retrieve the loss.
I am at a loss to conjecture on what reasonable
grounds their prayers can be disregarded. Is it
from a disbelief of the distress, or the inability to
relieve it, or, finally, from the impression that the
duty belongs to others? The distress is no longer
a problem. It is running with the strides of
famine, and its-frightful progress has borne down
the most stubborn scepticism. From the first peer
in Mayo to the humblest peasant, there is on this
subject a melancholy coincidence of opiuion. The
markets are rising to an alarming height. Sixpence
fora stone of potatoes, and eightpence for the few
who can get labour, will convey but a faint idea
of the amount of our wretchedness. Yet for employ-
ment at that pittance, there is a keener canvass
than for the highest honours at your lordship's dis-
posal. On this morning alone, two hundred can-
didates were rejected. The cries of some who
protested they had not a particle of food, would
melt the most unfeeling heart. I implored them
to disperse quietly, lest they should be infected
with a contagious mutiny. Yes, my lord, I was
alarmed lest they should learn the recent mode of
tracing their distress with the spade—•a style which
surpasses all the ancient specimens of the art in
the boldness of its characters, as well as the inge-
nuity of the invention. Nay, it throws all the
rules of rhetoric into the shade regarding the pow-
erful effects cf writing.
Never did I witness forbearance so astonishing
under suffering so appalling. In no country under
Heaven would it be borne. Not certainly in Eng-
land ; without any remoter reference, I saw it yes-
terday. I attended at the unloading of a vessel of
potatoes, which was consigned for our relief by the
London committee. It was with difficulty one
could make his tray through the crowd of mendi-
cants that besieged it. Some rotten potatoes were
thrown on the deck. The scramble for their pos-
session was revolting to human feeling. I watched
the emotion with which your lordship's country-
men surveyed the distressing scene. Nor shall I
easily forget the words which fell from the mate
' in a tone which spoke a mixture of humanity and
pride—" The pigs in Devonshire would not feed
on the rotten potatoes for which the poor creatures
are fighting!"
But why occupy your lordship's time in detail-
ing distress too evident to be controverted, and too
intense to be endured. It is, alas ! attested by the
fresh tombs of some the most valuable of our
clergy. They have become its victims. Tbe
others remind one of the painful condition of those
who strive to appease, by the ingortmee of land,
the mutiny of a hungry crew. The clergy are
sustaining the minds of the people by the hope' of
succour; bet every hoer it is protracted, only ag-
gravates the discontent, and endangers their salu-
tary influence.
If, then, my lord, the starvation is toe evident
for doubt, and too pressing for delay, where can
we turn for relief but to a paternal government ?
We will not, I trust, be told, that it is too exten-
sive for the government's resources. Were it one
of those awfal visit/Akins by which kingdoms are
'sometimes punished, government might find some
apology in the magnitude of the evil. It is not a
plague or a famine which sometimes sweeps the
surface of a whole country. No, though severe
in its intensity, it is /inked is its exteet. Same
districts are suffering dreadfully from the infliction;
though the evil is too large for priest. bensvolsaao,
it can easily be subdued by the government's
resources.

Were the faith df treaties• to be violated, or the
Uies of Great Britain to be insulted by a hostile

power, the gorernment woad instantly extend
them its protection. No money should be spared
defend them, and the minister would confident
appeal to Parliament for an act of indemnity
the lives of subjezta of less value than the safet
our allies ; and is not famine to be ni
among the most formidable of our
It is then, in such a case slant
the minister affects to fear the
the legislature. No : such apprehensions
entertained. They would be a libel on human
tore as well as on the wisdom of Parliament.
did a minister come down to the senate solicit
more creditable indemnity, than for the expenditure
of money to save the livee. of the people. The bo-
roughmongering Parliament' sto longer exists.
has paid the just forfeit of its want oft* kindred
ing with the people, in the speediness of its
lotion.

I have discharged my duty to the people
preaching patience until it threatens to be
hausted. I have done my duty to the go►ernmeoi
by seasonable and repeated warning of their -
The hopes of the people are wound to a high k.
The cord may snap by the rigour of the tension
The seasonableness of a boon adds considerably
its value. Human lives are too precious to '-
criliced to procrastination. The prompt measures
of a day may preserve what the tardy deliberations
of yearn could not relieve.

JOHN MACHA,
THB RIOT IN WALE&

_.„.,_.._
Prom the Bristol Mercury.
The cause of the excitement We are unable ettnectly
state—some accounts attributing It to a postal stoppage
the works, and others to a feeling of disgust towardnst
system. The principal affray took place on Friday, when,
consequence of the desperate conduct of the rioters, the mili-
tary were necessitated to fire—lS of the populace being killed
on the spot, and a great many dangerously wounded.
letters from Merthyr are written under feelings of much
tion—the numbers of the rioters and their determined ,
ter, in the absence of any considerable military forte, a
ing them a terror to the orderly and' peaceable. Our
temporary the Journal, in a supplement to his p.
Saturday, hesitates not to attribute the disturbances f
excitement consequent on the agitation of the reform
lion ; but from all we have been able to collect, It doe
appear that than is any around for such a supposition.
have been favoured by a friend with a perusal of a I
from a gentleman at Merthyr, which gives a tolerably
curostantial account of the principal rencontre. We
join the following extracts ; •
" Menrurn, June 3.—nere was a general ' turn-out'
of all the workmen four days age. They met at a plata
called TWyn-y-wain, and It was expected there would have
been a disturbance in the evening, but they dispirited, and
did not show any formidable appearance till the next des ; d
they then assembled in considerable numbers and red
the streeis all day. Where any goods bad been for
debt, they obliged the parties to deliver them up, and handed
them over to the owntes. In the evening, about ten o'clock,
I was writing in the office, vaporing papers foe taking an
account of the population, wham, some men came and knocked
at the door, recommending me to extinguish my lights sod
depart, as the men were coming that way. When I got into
the street, I found that they had been at the house of MIN
Coffin who keeps the Court oniequests, and &mended the
Woks: which Me. Coffin had previously sent away. On die-
'Deering this, they broke open the door and destroyed pro-
perty to the amount of 8001. or 1,0001 making a bonfire
0 all the old books belonging to the Court, and break-
ing chain, table', du. to keep up the dame. The romp.
testes, Mr. Bruce and Mr. Hill, convened a meeting at the
Conk Inn, and despatched messengers to Swansea, Brecon.
sad Cardiff for troops. A party arrived in the night, and
when I went to the Castle Inn in the meriting, It presented
the appearance of a castle about to be besieged. The
large room, in which they give concerts and balk, was
converted into a eon of guard room, being filled with a
fine troop of Highlanders (93d), amounting to about 1001,
On the outside the mob era. assembled (I should think*
there were cue thousand men, or more,) with blit
and a few with firearms, The officers were breakfast. lag in the large public room, and the magistrates and
iron-masters were assembled in the room adjoining. Soon
after my arrival they agreed to receive a deputation from
the mob, and twelve men were accordingly admit-
ted. The soldier, were ordered out before the door to keep
guard, end prevent any attempt being made on the place. I
wee present at the conference, and was surprised to bear bow
well many of the men spoke. They appeared to be the bod-
ies individuals of their party ; and, although they spoke very
ssepectfully, insisted upon an immediate rise of wag as
Asir present receipts were not enough to support their
fannies.

" 31r. Crawshay and Mr. Bill addressed them In log-
I fish, and Mr. Bruce in Welsh, representing to them the int.
propriety of breAleg the laws. as well as the impoodbility
iof their allowing themselves to be dictated to by an tried
mels. The men ',plied, that nothing short of Inoue.
Mate concession on the part of the iron-masters would
satisfy the party assembkd outside. At this petted of
tbe conference I left the t oom to view the people.--
rho soldiers assembled before the door looked like
'pecks amongst the multitude, and teats were enter_
tamed of a rush upon them. Direction. wets honsedistely
given for three men to occupy each window in the Castle.
Mr. Guest came up shortly after, and addres.ed the pope.
bee from the centre window; but after a great deal of speak.
Mg on both sides, no favourable decision was come to.—
Mr. Crawshay then addressed them to ti • HAW strait as
11,. Guest, but in vain. After parleying ame time, they
made a rush upon the soldiers and tr ed to dinette them.
The order was then given w lira; and the various cd11•
ars rere driving thn.ugh the hott.* in all iheetkor, and
[ muskets cracking tr....m every window. IDIS SIMI was
I asked in every direction, and as soon as ;he mob dispirited.
we found that Mere were thirteen poor fellows lying dead
Moho street. The soldiers did not escape; the comen.whog
hider, Major received a severe injury on the bark of
its head from a bludgeon, and was &tremolos with bleed.
About 20 of the Highlanders were injured in various ways
doe man had his bayonet taken from him, and was stahhain
lie bide ; some had brokers heads, and the large mom *es
Strewed with the wounds J. Them were several surgeon le at-
tendance and I believe they expected the recovery of all the
soldiers. It is reported today that some of them died_pro.
dowdy to their being conveyed to Brecon. There were,/ se
mere of the people wounded, and some killed, ca white we
kart received no information, as they were conveyed amity
by their comrades. lam only surpti‘ed that so few appear
N have suffered from the constant trollies that were fired ro:
way window. Om man advanced at a time, sal took deli.
berate atm ; then the second and third. end by the time Me
*lsel had discharged his musket the first was ready to take
Ms place. The dead bodies were conveyed to the stables;
mice of them had scarcely parted with the last quiverleg te-
eming of existeree.
" Our situatioo was extremely critical : the men did net
exhibit any symptoms of fear—the women were screechieg
most horribly. After the mob were dispersed, they went at
the various eminences that emmended the inn, and begonia
pepper us pretty smartly with the nosibees irks.* from the W-
eller', who could only get a random should them oceeditally.
About two o'clock I passed threligh the various patrols that
were stationed up and down the streets, and Mugs appeared
N be Wendy quiet. Troops hembesn erriviog W
hisre two or three morale/ regimen* and ere sew tokosbly
mecum. The iowergentis have takes to tits hills; how they
are to subsist titers, I know sot : I should think they trust
quickly come to terms.
" The first - whomised

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extend to
e spared
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inity. Are
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nuothstid•
tar feel I!
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The be-
exists. It
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I its dine-
people in
ovtoernbemeexo;
their state.
high pitch.
he tension.
[dere* to
IP to be se-
t measures
eliberations
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I stomp of
we the truck
day, when, in
tees, the mik-
e being killed
ended. The
(much &glut.
aimed charm-
force, render.
e. Our con.
his paper of
bances to the
reform ques-
t, It does not
position. We
al of a letter
tolerably cir.
e. We stab-
il • turn-out'
at a place
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ispersed, and
he noel:ilea/
and ed
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P, and handed
It ten eklock,
foe taking an
e and knocked
ay lights and
hen I got into
house of Mr.
ckmandel the
ray. On Ms-
lestroyed pro-
:ing a bonfire
t, and break-
The megia.
teeting at the
ask, Bf•COO,
he night, and

••• Tile iirst Mal/ who seized a ameba vsw large leeway
fellow. • I did not tee him till he was dead. He mised49o
musket tram ballad toe soWieroi4d, oo he 'udder tuning
mum!. they struggled for it : thiiisidler gel Mari litiletw..
Cher oft, and thee, with a thrust. newt the bryweal diroulla ids
body, sad he fell wl4 the Oise* -dm %pow atielting ow
at his bask. The .skirt w icings kroolled. with a
club, and dangerously wounditicaledeet _ bowl. Aiwillitir fal-
low seised hoktof a dreamt., ' bog ale ImetZet
his head immediately, eat t
side at she segue time. .Y. • •,
"limb a Wm*r la la i 8 boc4i2it, 1111 4 • • d
before. Fuser Aitid ttfi 'Mawr.
log amaialea ' die ' lilt *fli rat Sow!
*ltalia& .for preitidey ll'poieliosodE mi Ifni at
.181.04411 a
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*tiMittratfriiietea-with
his return to • Ilia
Merthyr. was Mt moss • tudoesnupted

I A TEL LIGENCE.

Ilia' SETS AND DEitPJAN PAPERS.
(itECiIvED Tills DAV.)
BRUSSELS, Jrzu 6.
Ais 'lute 101 gun, and the ringing of all the
• ;, neancEd ysettirday, at half put one o'clock,
the chriiiiri of 11. e Prince of Saxe-Coburg,as King
of the Bell:ions. Immediately after the prods-
'nation of this e!ection, Mr. Ch. White, secretary
to Lord Ponsenby, set out for London in a car-
nage and four, preceded by two couriers, to an.
nuance to the Prince his election to the throne of
Belgium. It is said that a steam-boat bad been

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vngaged before hand to convey him over. A Co-
lonel attached to the French Legation, set nut at
the same time with dispatches for Paris. A Bri-
tish messenger set out at the same time to the
Hague, probably to announce to the King of
Holland the choice which our Congress has just
made.

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FLAX

By a decree of the 4th June, the Regent, on the
report of the Minister for Foreign Affai-s, has ap-
pointed Messrs. Devaux, Van de Weyer, Counts
d'Aerschot and Nothemb, Commissioners to the
Congress at London, to carry on the ne,rociations
authorized by the decree of Congress of June 2.
It was reported yesterday evening, that the works
for the defence of Antwerp had had resumed, in
consequence of a threat of General Chasse. After
the election of the Prince of Saxe Coburg, in the
sitting of the Congress yesterday on the choice of
a deputation of 10 members, including the Presi-
dent, to wait on his Royal Highness with the news
of his election, and to offer him the Crown, the
Minister of the Interior presented his budget.
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BRUS4ELS, JUNE 6.—M. to Hon, oar Ambas-
sador to the Court of France, set out last night for
Paris. The deputation of the Congress, which is
to announce to Prince Leopold his elcctien to the
Throne, tvill not set out before Tuesday morning.
Messrs. Devanx and Nothomb, Special Commis-
sioners to the Congress, set out yesterday evening.
Messrs. n'Aerschot and Van de Weyer. not wish- ,
ing to take in London any character besides that of,
members of the deputation to Prince Leopold, have
not accepted the mission of Commissioners el the
(lovernment to the London Congress.
We find the followin., article in a journal —" A
memorandum, dated 29thD May, has been addressed
bv the Congress at London to Lord Pcnsonby.—
'l:his memorandum is in 9 articles. The following
are the principal :-
1. The Congress (the conference) declares that
it has exhausted by the protocols all the conces-
sions that it can and will make to Belgium : the
latter has only to submit to them.
2. Neither Prince Leopold, nor any other Prince,
u ill accept the Crown of Belgium, till Belgium
has first accepted and executed the protocols.
3. If the protocols are not accepted, the powers
u ill take such measures as their engagements,
their dignity, and the security of the adjacent
states shall require.
It is certain that the King of Holland has re-
fused to agree to an arrangement concerning Lux-
emburg, and that he has declared this to Sir C.
Bagot, the English Ambassador, who in the end
acknowledged that his refusal was well founded.
The Regent has appointed M. T. Tielmans, now
Governor of Antwerp, to be Governor of Liege,
and M. C. Rogier to be Governor of Antwerp.
Bit uss ELS, Jca c 7.—The 10 deputies from the
Congress set out for Ostend at half-past five this
morning, to embark for London. Two English cou-
riers arrived, in the course of yesterday, at the re-
sidence of Lord Ponsonby. This diplomatist, who
is said to be ill, and very much cast down, expects
Lis secretary, Mr. White, on Thursday, at the
lstest. His Lordship gave him express orders to
bring back instructions from the London Congress.
We are assured that there is a great coolness be-
tween M. Lebeau and the Envoy of the Congress.
—Courricr.

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THURSDAY. JUNE 9.

The Independent says, that M. Rogier has not
a,:cepted his appointment.—Brussels papers, June 8.
VIENNA, MAY 28.—A French courier, who

arrived to-iiay from Constantinople, who left that
city on the 14th instant, brings a bulletin pub-
lished on the 13th by the Porte, relative to the
total defeat ar.d dispersion of the troops of the
Pacha of Scutari by the Grand Vizir. After the
defeat of 20th April, Mustapha Pacha was unable
to maintain his ground, either in Koprili or Askal:

all the Paellas, who before supportedhim, have not
only deserted him, but have become his most inve-
terate enemies, in order to obtain their pardon from
the Sultan. Mustapha, attended by a few follow-
ers, is said to have fled precipitately to Scutari :
but all the passes are said to be occupied, so that
lie has little chance of escape.
Accounts from Leml:erg, of 23d say, that above
30 persons had already been carried off by the cho-
lera. The Government has taken the most ener-
getic measure's to check the progress of the disorder.
Four per Cent. Metalliques, 71 ; Bank Stock,
1036.-411.9erneine Zeituny, June 2.
-THE HAGuE, June s.—General de Steins,
havieg been appointed by his Majesty Commander
of the army in the East ladies, has had his final
audience of his Majesty, t.nd will shortly sail for
. Lis new destination, on board the King of the
• Netherlands frigate.
11(yrrEttris st, June 6.—lt is affirmed that M.,
de Kock has declined the post of Minister of Finance,
which was offered him. Major Gen. Goedeke,
on the departure of the Duke of Saxe Weimar, is
eh aged with the interests of his Majesty the King
of the Netherlands, in the Grand Duchy of
Luxemburg.
Tim HAGUE, JUNE 6. —ln the sittings of the
Second Chamber of the States-General, on the

sod 3,1 inst. the Project of Law for modifying the
Tariff wits discussed The law was agreed to by a

majoiity of 38 to 8.
AMSTERDAM, JUNE 6.—. Actual debt, 2i per
cent. 393 40; Amort Syad. 4i 64* 65{ ; ditto
53f.-Dutch Papers, June 7.
pent contain* no news from Poland later
•oirn of General Skrzynecki to Praga.)
, MAY slo..—‘Letteps front Constanti-
drat die report of the nail of General

‘l,,itt lest night. It is uow 8 o'clock. I have been on an , Guilleminot was spread there, and was generally'
, tilii.ence to inspect the :totem at a distance: they are
••..stertd in considerable numbers on the Brecon-road, be- I believed, though not made known officially, at leas
;end Coedycymer. Pennydarren.house is filled with in- 1 the French legation did not contradict it. The Reis
t.wry, and surrounded by cavalry. All the iron-works 1 Effendi, and even the Sultan, are said much to re-
.topped at Nantyglos and every where else in the neigh. I gret this Circumstance, as Guilleminot under the
• ::0100.1, All the men are crowding to Coedycymer :
I most difficult circumstances, especially when the
t , v are supposed to he about 8,1100 men ; they are oar- I
ambassador
~. wa.ehLtl di along the road, and the least movementof the meditating powers left Con-
• . :. . •• tic acquainted with," i stantinople, behaved with so much prudence and mo-
. t!eration towards the Porte, that his departure
cannot be looked upon with indifference.—Allge-
meine Zeiting, June 3.

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THE EVENING STAR.

Despatches were this day received at the Fo-
reign-otiice, in Downing-street, from Lords GRAv-
S'ILLE and PONSON BY, our Ambassadors at Paris
and Brussels; and from Sir CHARLES BAGOT, at
the Hague.

Important intelligence has been received this
morning from the Brazils. A private letter from
Rio states that the Emperor, Don PEDRO, has ab-
dicated in favour of his son—his troops having re-
fused to obey his orders. Immediately afterwards,
the EMPEROR embarked on board the Volage,
French frigate ; and on the 7th April, the young
QUEEN, and the rest of the Royal Family, em-
barked on board another frigate, destined to pro-
ceed to England.

Just ns our Paper was going to press, we hive
received our supply of the Paris journals and pri-
vate letters, by the Estafette of this day. We se-
lect the following melancholy particulars from
Italy :
Extract of a Letter from Parma, May 27 :

" Yesterday, at six o'clock in the morning, at Modena,
Ciro Alenotti and the advocate Bandit were hanged ; several
other persons have been condemned to irons. The death of
Morelli excited muck regret ; he was a distinguished and
excellent man. The execution took place without the
public being aware of it a the domestic of Borelli
carried, as usual, the breakfast to his master, when be saw
his body suspended from the gibbet." What grief, what
indignation, does such a simple recital awaken. What !
Fiance has not even sufficient credit to save from the gibbet
her allies and her friends !—Le Conetihttiotusel.

Letters from Rome, of May 26, state the com-
plete evacuation of Italy by the Russian troops,
and contain a proclamation from Cardinal BER-
tiRTTI. on the subject.

A passage in Le Temp mentions, that letters from
Warsaw, of a very late date, state that Dw Lax ECKI
has received permission to return into Poland.
Nothing is said of his troops.

Lisbon Gazettes from the 23d to the 28th
ultimo, inclusive, are received this day. They
carefully abstain from all mention of the recent
decisive measures, of the English and French Go-
vernments, with respect to the conduct of Dox

MIG V LL. We have, however, the subjoined
humouroue article :

LISBON, MAY 23.—Last Saturday, at two o'clock in the
afternoon, His MAJESTY returned in good health, from
Leimora Cones, to this city. His MAJESTY was every
where received with proofs of the love and attachment,
which the Portuguese nation so justly feels for its august
11 and legitimate Ring!

A private letter from Warsaw, has been handed
to us, by which we are assured that the Lithuani-
ans pursue their holy cause with ardour : all the
inhabitants—not even excepting the aged—take up
arms, to deliver their country from the despotic
sway of their oppressors. At the same time we
6nd, that in the hope of checking the personal cru-
elties of the Russians, they arc obliged to have re-
course to the severe measures of the common
enemy. Since the Russians hanged the brave
Sciiox and shot LABANOUSK I, a superior Rus-
sian officer, made prisoner in a skirmish, has been
banged by orders of a Court Martial, over which a
Lithuanian citizen, of four score years, presided.

The inuTination of a contemporary outstripped
us on Tuesday evening. It afforded another spe-
cimen of his official accuracy, stating what had
transpired in no office in London except his own.
Our Readers are aware, that the Belgians, en-
couraged by Lord PONSONBY, and by the declara-
tions of Prince LEOPOLD, have elected his Royal
Highness for their Sovereign. No circumstances
could he more straight forward, or more honourable
to all parties ; but the Journals in Paris have been
exciting jealousies, and those in London have been
imagining all kinds of difficulties—though those
difficulties existed, and were notorious before the
overture and its ratification by the public choice of
the Belgians.

The French Journals treat Prince LEOPOLD as
a British Prince, and his election as a triumph of
British influence ; but this is a mistake, or a per-
verse misrepresentation : for no Prince in Europe
can have less nationality than Prince LEOPOLD.
his residence in England is to be referred to many
circumstances; and nothing but mere residence
renders him in any degree British. We are per-
suaded that the entire measure had no origin in the
British Cabinet, and certainly it has created little
interest in England, except so far as it is a means
of arranging the affairs of Belgium.
When a French Prince, the son of the King, de

facto, was elected, the circumstance created no
jealousy in England, and no other feeling than one
of satisfaction, in assuring the peace and liberty of
Belgium, and the probable protection of France.
The reasoning of the London Papers are equally
perverse. They pretend, that if the Congress
cannot now anticipate futurity, and settle before-
hand questions which time, negociation, and
circumstances alone can adjust, that therefore
Prince LEoroLD ought not to accept the Crown.
But if such reasoning prevailed in all the affairs
of life—if a man acted only when all contingen-
cies were determined, and took none of the chances
of events—he, and all the world, would stand
still. If Prince LEOPOLD accept the Belgic So-
vereignty, it must be to serve the country, and
entitle himself to its gratitude ; but if he ac-
cept it, to do nothing for the Belgians, but dis-
play Royal Parade, and enjoy the Royal Re-
venues, ho cannot be a Prince to their
purpose. He cannot reasonably or magnanimously
reply—" make every thing smooth, leave me no-
aing to do, and then I accept the sovereignty."
Yet such is the language which our newspapers fa-
bricate for him. In fact, the questions at issue can-
not be well adjusted, till a Prince, recognised by
Europe, is on the throne.
The Belgian Deputies are hourly expected in
, London ; and in a day or two, this question will
be settled. We expect that Prince LEOPOLD
will not coquet with the respectable dignity offered
him, and that a marriage will take place ; which,
like all marriages, must be for better or worse.

But if the Beigians are again repulsed, and
made the dupes of such endless intrigues, we then
exhort them to continue the same course of order
and patience, and forthwith adopt the American
Constitution, elect a President, arouse public spirit,
and take their chance as a free people, resting for
the remelt on the principles of liberty. This, in
fact, is their only alternative, ifagain baffled. We
hope, however, that the anticipations are false,
and that Prince LEOPOLD will be governed by his
own sense of magnanimity, and not by the sinister
arguments of a few journalists.
For our own parts, we lamented at the time, and
still lament, that the leading men in the Belgic
Congress, did not listen to the manly advice of M.
POTTER, proclaim a Republic, choose a President,
and maintain their territory and independence, with
that energy of courage, by which alone respect is
extorted from the world.

upon the people, and " scour," as this narrative
expresses, it the street of MERTHYR. TIDvIL,
crowded by men, women, and children. If it
be true, as stated, we boldly declare it to be wrong
—and that it is an affair which should be
minutely investigated. We have that respect for
the Nobleman who presides at the Home Office,
to feel convinced that it will become an affair
of strict scrutiny. If the riotous proceedings of
the people are to be visited with severe punishment,
let us, at the same time, be zealous to prevent the
committing of illegal outrages, by those who
subordinately wield the thunder of Government.

It appears by returns from Gloucester, that only
455 houses, in that great city of 2,000 good houses,
are rated at £lO to the poor ; that is, the houses
are rated at only one-third of their true rentals.—
We believe the same is the case nearly every-
where, and a difficulty will hence arise, in assigning
the electoral fianchise. There must be a new ra-
ting and valuation, taking actual rent, lease, pre-
mium, &c. into consideration; and in all fairness,
assessments to the poor should be real—not fictitious
and arbitrary. Some towns are rated at rents fixed
50 years ago, and people are in that way allowed to
practise the grossest frauds on one another.—The
£lO clause ought therefore to have a rider, requiring
a three years' valuation of houses, by assessors
chosen by the inhabitants ut large ; and this valuetion should govern the Poor Rates and other local
rates, the amount of which being fixed, the respec-
tive assessments would average the same sum.—
This must be done; or another plan must be adoptee,
and all houses paying rates must be entitled to a
vote. This is a question, not merely for the Le-
gislature, but for the people. It is a choice —not
a difficulty ; and it demands a prompt expression
of public opinion. If old Rentals are to be the test,
less will be gained by the Bill in corporate towns,
than the public expect; but a triennial valuation
would correct this, and sonic other inconveniences
and abuses.

Lord ALIIIORP gives notice that ministerial
measures will not be agitated in Parliament till the
21st inst. Perhaps this delay is unavoidable, Lu'
in the state of the country, there is much urgency.
The LORD LIEUTENANT expresses a doubt whe-
ther Parliament will sanction a grant to the starved
people of Mayo and the west of Ireland, and this
is a doubt which ought at once to be remo.ed.
We are, on the contraay, persuaded that
Parliament will liberally do its duty ; and then, to
prevent similar demands in future, will strictly
enquire into, and remove the causes by some effi-
cient regulations. The country will not begrudge
whatever is necessary to meet the circumstances ;
but the country expect such regulations to be
made in the disposition of landed property, as
shall make land, in the fiat instance, subservient to
the wants and necessities of the population ; and
only, in the second, beneficial to its trustee, the
land proprietor. This is a question which Par-
liament must fairly grapple with, for the evil
has been increasing ever since the alienation
laws of Henry the Seventh made land an object
of speculation and commerce. We hear of £B,
£lO, £l5, and even £2O an acre being extorted
from the Irish peasantry, in the wildest parts of
Ireland, while from 25a. to 50s. is the highest
price in the most fertile and advantageous parts
of England.

The following are some of the facts published by-
the Western London Committee, whose Treasurer
is Mr. DRUMMON D, the Banker, of Charing-
Cross.

We extract in a previous column an account of
the late unfortunate affair at Merthyr Tidvil, which,
we are rather astonished to perceive, has attracted
so little of the attention of our cotemporaries.
They appear to pass it over obscurely, as a matter
of every day occurrence, and unworthy of any
notice, except as a piece of common provincial in-
telligence. We hope, for the sake of humanity,
that the narrative, which we have this day
given, may not be true. Is it possible that the
respectable employers of the population of MEW'
TIIYR TIDVIL and the Magistrates of the
district, could, after admitting popular delegate*
to a conference with them, and hearing their com-
plaints, authorize the military, without reading the
Riot Act, to fire out of the windows of an inn,

Extract from the Letter of J. Dombrain, Esq., Inspector-
General of the Coast Omni for Ireland, a gentleman, whose
discrimination and accuracy of judgment are only surpassed
by his high character for honour ar.d benevolence.
" I have just returntd from a visit to the coast of Done.
gal, under tire sanction of the Lord Lieutenant, to ascertain
the Mate of the poor in those remote parts, and it is with
feelings of 'deep pain and regret I communicate to you a
catalogue of miseries, almost unexampled even in this
country.

~ The first in order, and primary cause of all the rest,
was an almost complete failure of the potatce crop; this was
owing to incessant heavy rains, and a succession of violent
gales of wind, which commenced about the first cf August,
and continued till November. Oats, from the same cause,
were not more than half a crop. Hay, the season for cut-
ting which in the mountains does not commence till Octo.
her, not half a crop ; and the turf almost entirely destroyed:
the consequences are, that at this moment there are hundreds
of human beings nearly dying from starvation; meaty are
living on sea-weed, and such shell-fish as they can procure
and should warm weather set in, I have little doubt but
that fever will follow, and carry off thousands.
41 The snow remained an unusually long time on the
ground, the fodder was soon exhausted, and the cattle are
now dying by hundreds ; one person I know lost the week
before last twenty-five head of black cattle.
From the Rev. Mr. RUis :

" I write to lay before you the dreadful distreu at present
existing at Cunnamara. I beg your advice and assistance in
endeavouring to relieve it. Famine and Fever are stalking
hand in band through this miserable region, and if some
means of relief are not immediately found, thousands upon
thousands must perish.
" As a last resource, some are now bleeding their storing
cows, boiling their blood, and eating it.
" I see nothing before us all the summer but famine and
pestilence. Any thing that an be done for us ought to be
dose quickly. Another month's distress may insure the
death of thousands."

Mr. Dombrain writes from Guidore, on the 26th May,
1831 :

" The instances of individual suffeting would scarcely be
believed ; my feelings have been so harrowed up, I scarcely
know which way to turn, and amidst my firm belief,
and, indeed, decided conviction, that but for the re-
lief sent here through the medium of the Reco►d, the
whole of this country would have been depopulated. I have
this moment heard of one woman having been found dead
with the child at the breast, who was actually drawing
blood !"
These are facts which call foi large grants from

the public purse, and from the stores of Allelic,
Charity has contributed nearly Twelve Thousand
Pounds to the MANSION HOUSE LONDON Ci)!_
MITTEE ; Five or Six Thousand Pounds to tl„•
DUBLIN COMMITTEE; and we hope as much woi.•
to the WESTERN COMMITTEE ; but Twenty Thou-
sand Families can be effectually relieved only by
the sympathy of the National Gorernn.ent, while
the sacrifice which it is called on to make, Avoidd
be followed, as it ought to be, by measures fur pre-
venting the recurrence of similar calamities.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Our funds are very heavy this morning. COll •
sole, which left off yesterday at 83 for the Ac-
count, opened at 8384 ; but owing to a report of
the French Funds coming lower, they have declined
to 82 g, at which price they are at present.
In the Foreign Market, Brazil Stock has ftlle:i
since yesterday morning 7 per cent. owing to to
rious unfavourable accounts from Rio.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols are at present 82 83 for the Account.
In the Foreign Market there has been alea:tioa
in the Brazil Stock ; it was as low as 534, at pre-
sent it is 55.
THREE O'CLOCK.
STOCK Excliasrow.—Bank Stock, —. Three per C.!.
Rd. 112; 13 2. Three rer Cr. Con oh, shut. Three and
a Half pet Cr. 1818, 001 891. Three and a Half I.e.
Cent. lied. 90 893 i I I. Three and a Half per Ceti'.
New, abut. Four per Cent. 1826, 981 I. Long Al.
nuities, Jan. 1860, 16 15-16 1:1-16. India Stock, shut;
ditto Bonds, 3 2 prem. £lOOO Exchequar Bills, 10 11;
£5OO ditto, 10 11; £lOO and ,0200 ditto, Cunkols
for Account, C3l 23 3 21.

A mail has arrived from Lisbon : it appears that
on the 26th ult. a French frigate and brig made
their appearance again off the Tagus, and it is said
have captured some more Portuguese vessels.
Extract of a letter from Captain Pearson, of the
Animus, from Antigua, dated off Penzance, 4th
instant :—" The island w•as all quiet on our leav-
ing, the 20th of April. The martial law• flag w•as
down."

The news from the Brazils, of the Emperor
having abdicated the throne in favour of his son,
only three years old, and his embarking with his
family on board two frigates for England, has
caused a great sensation in the City, and is the
general topic of conversation on 'Change. It is
said that only four of his soldiers remained firm
to him.

The French Journals insinuate that our Squadron
of Observatien is destined for the Baltic, and, per-
haps, they say this because they wish it, and be-
cause it ought to be so. A British Fleet in the
Baltic, and 100,000 French in Saxony, would
speedily adjust the relations of Poland, and would
save rivers of human blood.

A session of parliament in the dog days will be
warm work, and render all the debates very hot.
Lord Althorpe in the last session treated the cur-
rency question as one disposed of. But they think
otherwise at Myrther Tydvil, in Northumber-
land, Cornwall, and Staffordshire—that is, in every
part of the kingdom !
Mr. Hobhouse has undergone a trial of patience
about the Select Vestry Bill and the Hours' Regu-
lation Bill, but we hope he wi:l persevere.
It is serious that a Gentleman, of great practi-
cal experience, has again and again offered to
Ministers a safe and certain plan for regulating
wages in all manufactories ; but he has never been
able to extort attention. Why should the policy of
Government require bloody mementos ?
The pressing questions before t'arliament will be
the Reform Bill—Debtor and Creditor Lbw—
Chancery Reforms—Poor Laws in Ireland—Pro-
perty Tax Large Farms The Currency—
Poland, Belgium, and Italy, the Bank, East and
West India Interests, &c. Will there be a country
party strong enough to direct the topics, or will they
lie by for the first reform parliament, and leave
the initiative to Nlinisters ?
The increase in the population of towns, during
the four censuses, explains the misery of the peo-
ple. Instead of depending on the fruits of the
earth, and on personal labour, in producing them,
they are driven into towns to prey on one another.
Several towns exhibit increases of 50 per cent.
since 1821 !

Gloucestershire has been thrown into a second
ferment, by an eight days' county election for a
coroner; at an expense to the parties equal to the
fee-simple of the office. Why is not the poll token
in hundreds— why do our legislators neglect such
evils so easy of remedy ?
Our hint about the obnoxious Loid Lieutmat ts
has, we observe, not been lost. We observe it Is
spoken of at some public meetings, and it .
in some of the provincial papers. A genet
of the tory faction is essential at once to the
nour, peace, and interest of the country.
corforations are other nuisances which ought
once to be abated.

Mr. Littleton's Bill, to destroy the hated
cruel truck-system, ought to have been passed
the last Sessions. How much wrong and
have been caused by the system since, and to
who were already on the verge of despair
farmers bad been paying landlords in kind,
nants house-rent in their manufactures,
would have been less tardy.
Let us hope that the late decision of the
ccllor in favour of useful education, the
Ashby School, will be the means of .
and rendering useful all the Monkish
ments which now insult the country.
the dead languages being the pedantic sole
wise trustees ought rather to exclude them
Cher ; and where they are tolerated, at least
them secondary to useful and desirable
on subjects of living knowledge. New
must, in general, be appointed, or the pul
be baled by pugnacious prejudices.
It is impossible not to feel acute pain on .
over police and sessions' reports, to observe
three-fourths of the cases arise from soave
fogging question about the revenue laws,
most paltry branches of which create the -
annoyance. Lately, for example, many
ushers were half or wholly ruined by gross
sions about the paltry pamphlet duty: .
same time hundreds of druggists were mulcted
some pettifogging questions raised under the
tine Act. Fifty of these paltry imports might
once be swept away by a property tax, over '
above the assessed taxes on small houses and
malt tax. Why do not the people assemble in
parishes, and petition with one voice ou
subject.

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