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London, England, 1831-01-31 00:00:00

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MONDAY, JANUARY 31.

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This day despatches were received at the .Foreign-office
from Lord GRAN VILLE, our Ambassador at Pais; and
from Sir CHARLES &GOT, our Ambassador at the Hague.

Major-General Sir Joni WILSON is appointed Lieute-
nant-Governor of Ceylon, vice Sir HUDSON Lown.

All the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of Lord
Viscount PALMERSTON, Lord Dwelt sm, and the Right
lion. CHARLES GRANT, are gone to Brighton, where the
K ING is to holds Privy Council this afternoon, for the pur-
pose of pricking for persons to serve the office of Sheriff', for
the counties of England and Wales.

Mr. PLANTA and Mr. HOLMES are now on a visit to the
Duke of WELLINGTON. at Strathfieldeay.

The National Paris paper of Saturday, received this
moriiing, affirms that new movements have taken place in
Hanover; and by a letter from Frankfort, it appears that
fresh troubles had broken out in Hildesheim. No particu-
lars have yet transpired. Saturday evening in Paris, some
new arrests of the Students were announced.

Private letters from Brussels, received to day, state that
nothing is done in the nomination of a King; and such seem
to be the divisions among the Belgians, that recourse must
be had to the Allied Powers for a settlement of the question

On Thursday the Imperial Parliament meets, and we may
expect a bustling Sessions. The plans of Ministers excite
great expectations, and the counteraction of selfish interested
parties will create a contest of no ordinary character. We
have noticed various subjects likely to be agitated. The
reparation and renovation of an old tottering house will be
no easy task, amid so many architects and engineers.
May our Legislators go to work, and be able to execute that
difficult task, of wisely proposing a measure of repair, satis-
factory to the people, and practicable with regard to the
other branches of the State. May they not, in attempting to
repair, pull the edifice about their own ears, and bury them-
selves in the ruin.

Perhaps the expressed opinion of the people, who are the
parties chiefly interested, will be allowed to have little in-
fluence, amid the greater wisdom which honourables and
right honourables, nobles and most nobles, will assume; but
if last in the conference, they will not be least in the final
judgment.

Nor will the parties who usually give, and take, be able
to indulge their mutual agreements ; for it may be ex-
pected that there will arise at least two members who
will prove uncompromising. Two out of 656 may be
despised by those who do not consider the forms of debates
and proceedings in an old legislature ; but amendments
moved and seconded, improved and varied, may prove so trouble_
some as to enforce attentions, and of this species of tactics,
on particular occasions, we may expect some striking spe-
cimens.

The unsophisticated public who judge of the rule of right
without regard to expediency, and who have suffered so much
from the juggling of selfish parties, will prefer simple truth,
proceed from whom it may ; and hence without the gift of
prophecy, we may foretel more controversy than we could
wish.

Mr. (non NELL will be powerful on the wrongs of Ire-
land; Mr. HUNT will be energetic as to the wrougs done
the people of England, on various occasions; and an UN-
COMPROMISING MOVER, and SECONDER will be a new spec;
tack in the history of Parliament.
While the interests of the people of this country render
it vitally important that the intended measure of reform
should be co-extensive with the existing well-defined and
flagrant defects which circumstances have intro-
duced into our representative system. it must not be for-
gotten that no administration have it in their powrr to force
measures according to their volition. As long as law must
be the result of the assent of the three essential portions of
our legislature, it must be in conformity with the sentiments of
those three portions. The Administration will doits duty, if
it propose measures to the extreme of what it con-
ceives will meet with this joint concurrence ;—and as this will
insure farther progress, we would earnestly recommend the
friends of Reform, not, byexacting of men more than they
can do, virtually conspire to thrust from authority, those in
whom they have just cause for confidence and future hope.
The reform of violence, the only alternative, it must not be
forgotten, has attendant set-offs too terrific to contemplate ;
and there is an almost equally terrific contingency likewise
not to be forgotten—that of the triumph of despotism.
The S rAR will continue, as usual, to do its duty, and not
only report impartially, but, by a brief uaily summary, put
its busier Readers into possession of the results, day by day.

We find by the Dublin papers received this morning, that
Mr. O'Cox Neu. leaves that city to-day, to attend his du-
ties in Parliament. From this, and a report of the proceed-
ings in the Court of King's Bench, we infer that he has
succeeded in traversing the trials in the arrests, until next
term. The prosecutions against the press in Ireland con-
tinue. Friday, a conditional order for attachment was
granted in the Court of King's Bench, against the proprie-
tor and publisher of the Morning Register, on the same
ground as that &gains t the Freeman's Journal—namely,
the publication of Mr. O'Cos Nude's letter to his Con-
stituents.

We have the A ligaments Zeitung of the 24th and 25th
i natant this day. The contents of these papers are forestalled
by our private correspondence from Paris. Ad they con-
tain are the usual equivocal Germania comments on the af-
fairs of Poland. The *sly, article worth extracting is the
following :
MONTI/11S OF POLAND, JAL Li

The &seder clouds eolleeted in the Rue.ian flontke Kathy" hare
met yet Imam Ammo!mod mass el snow, awl talattaeol fre ate
net Weed greet ebetaeles to the eesrayasee el ans. mad

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