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London, England, 1831-05-03 00:00:00

PUBLIC CI

Bank Stock,
India for Ac. 205. Bd., 2 dis par
London Docks, .C 59 10s
St. Catherine's..B7s 10s
City Gas, £l9O
Bank of Scotland, £167
British Linen, .e 250
Grand Junction, £243
Leeds, £395
Regent's, £lB 101

STAPLES OF BM'
Corrox Bowed,
Sid to 7d; Bernoulli, 7d to

8d ; N. Orleans, 6d to rid.
Wool, (ion.)'—Saxony prima, 33
to ss; Austrian prima,2s to 4s;
Segovia, 2s Od to Sts 6ii ; South
Down, 12 tols ; Blanket, 7 to 9.
Sox, thrown—Piedmont White,
271 to 45. ; yellow slack, 24. to
27s ; Modena raw, 14$ to 161;
Bengal, lOs 0.3 to 15. ; China,

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15s id to 17s.
FLAX—Riga, .152; Ant. £5O £65.
laos—Pip, £4 101 Od to £4 IS. ;
: Bars £6 510 d to £6 10s Od ;

Swedish, £l3 to £l5 10s.
Correa—LB7 to £BB Os ; South

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Amer. X 74 to X 751 10s.
LEAD—Ben, £l5 15e to .Cl 4.

Tui—Blocks, £3 15s.

llgaaa—Lumps, large, £3 3s Od
to £3 4s Od ; Powder, fine,
£3 168 to £4 6s Od ; Bengal,
£1 2s Od to £l_4s ; Jamaica,

fine, 42 16s to 43 Os.
Tosacco-- Maryland, nd to Sid;
Virginia, 5 to 6; Cuba, 15 to 18
Ou.—Flor. Al is Od half cheat;
Linseed, #2 Or Od per ewe;
Pale Rape 42 10s.
Baastos—.BOrdeanz, 3s to 3s 6d.
Ron—Jam. (14) 2s 3d to Is 5d ;
Don. (10 a 20) 2s to 28 2d.
Winssr, 10. 9d to 118.
Gansva, its 64 to 28 9d.

Poss—bood C 35 to 240.

S -Good, 425 to £4O.

ilaugm—Loti. P. £5O to £4O.

this o'CLocc—Barometer, 29.52; Thermometer, 59. Wintl N.E.
Weather, fair.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, MAY 3.

Advices were received this morning at the Colonial Office
of the death, at St. Lucie, of Major-General MAcm E, the
Governor—after a residence in the settlement of only two
months, and an illness of seven days.

Great is Truth, and it will prevail, Often has this adage
been repeated within the last forty years ; yet in the interval,
nearly a whole generation have passed away in despair.
Who could have imagined, that the doubly entrenched pow-
ers of the Boroughmongers, would have been dissipated in the
year 1831, like a fog before a summer's sun. We are
aroused as from a dream, during which we had
been oppressed by night-mare, after a long despondency in
misery and despair. The " heaven-born Minister" of the
boroughmongers will now sink into his proper ignominy, and
all Ins successors, and the train of his adulators, will sink
with The next Parliament will be able to remove our
chains, so long rivetted by gagging bills, fiscal laws, close
corporations, clerical magistrates, and all the artful machinery
of despotism. What a consummation ! It is a miracle
wrought by our great King, as wonderful as any ever wrought
by Catholic Saint, and an achievement equal to the labours
of Hercules, in cleansing the Augean Stable. We may
now expect to see an end to the packing of juries, by which
life and liberty are constantly placed at hazard—we
may expect to see laws to enable creditors to settle
with their debtors—we may hope to see justice rendered
cheap, and as accessible to the poor as to the rich—we may
calculate that pensions will be taken from the undeserving,
and given to the deserving—we may expect to see honours
and promotions conferred as the reward of merit, and not
made to depend on intrigue and subserviency—and we may
reckon on a distribution of taxes, more in accordance with

the means of those who have to pay them.
We are more surprised at the equivocal and adverse con-
duct of ou R Universities, than at any phenomena of these
eventful times. Is knowledge in them so different from that of
the world, and are such bodies to remain the instructors of
our youth and Legislators No, it is not, and cannot be the
fault of knowledge, or of science, which is always favourable
to liberty ; but it is the vice of the system and constitution
of the bodies. It is the result of the close corporation sys-
tem, which keeps up its numbers by always electing sub-
serviency ; and hence a progressive intellectual deterioration
in all such bodies, in a certain geometrical ratio. Of course,
one of the earliest acts of rational legislation must be
to throw open all such corporations ; and above all, those
which are the guardians of public education.—
Such bodies ought to advance with the age,

and even precede and lead it, and not retrograde, while
every thing else is advancing, so as to be intellectually on a
par with the Tudors, while the rest of the community are
imbued with all the lights of the age of WILLIAM the
Fourth. We are aware that this will be called the Language
of " the Snobs ;" but as the cant of close corporations,
which know so little of the Language of Reason, we shall
lose nothing in general estimation, by any of the slang of
their antiquated craft. We honour learning by its fruits—
let them show the fruits, and we will honour them.

Such is the spirit of the country, that at all meetings
of electors, they have either passed resolutions to go to
the poll at their own expence, or have opened subscrip-
tions to defray the expences in necessary eases. Even in
meetings of out-voters in London, the same plans have
been adopted by acclamation : hence, the cost of contests
to reforming candidates will be comparatively inconsiderable.
In some cases, coach-masters have agreed to convey voters
gratis, or with such reduction of charge, as merely defrays the
keep of horses. The union of four candidates for Yorkshire,
and of two for other places, tends also to diminish the ex-
penses of each. All these circumstances, and the good in-
telligence of the people, in regard to the questions at issue,
scare from the poll the unpopular advocates of corruption.
Hence, except from 50 or GO nomination boroughs, the new
Parliament seems likely to be nearly UNANIMOUS.
We yesterday gave the proportions of reformers and
anti-reformers, on the first thirty-three returns, as fifty to
seventeen, or nearly three to one. To-day we continue the
list, and without pursuing the details, we find that of seventy-
four returns, one hundred are reformers, and only thirty-seven
anti-reformers, or rather above three to one.

The polls are most satisfactory :
At STAMFORD, Mr. Tennyson is at the head of two
anti:reformers, supported with all the strength of Burleigh
House.

At COVENTRY, Mr. Fyler is completely distanced by
Mr. Ellice and Mr. Bulwer.

At BRIDOEWATER, Mr. Astill is without any chance.
At Beverley Messrs. MARSHALL and BURTON distance
Mr. WYNN.

At Norwich the cause of Sir CHARLES WETHERELL
and Mr. SA DLER were hopeless against MeSSTS. GURNEY
and GRANT.

At Newark Mr. WriLax is triumphing over the over•
whelming Newcastle interest.
At Honiton we are sorry to see Mr. GUEST in the rear;
and also Mr. DIVETT at Exeter; but the RUSSELL Meet-
ing will advise the Devonshire men.
At HERTFORD the Salisbury and other aristocratic inte-
rests have been defeated.

At BRISTOL we have to congratulate the nation on the
expulsion of one of the most adverse anti-reformers.

At WAavricit the Castle member is in the minority.
At BOSTON Mr. MALCOLM has been completely dis-
tanced by Messrs. HEATHCOTE and WILES.
At LEOMINSTER, Lord Hotham is beaten by Messrs.
Evans and Bryan.

At SHAFTESBURY, two decided reformers are at the
head of the poll.

ID HEREFORDSHIRE, Sir J. COHerell, ID the Tory in-
terest, has retired in favour of two reformers, Sir E. Price
and Mr. Hoskins.

We cannot too often repeat that coalition assures victory.
If Mr. BULLER at Exeter coalesced with Mr. Divzrr,
the election of this Reformer, would be assured ; so if Mr.
Lorr at Exeter coalesced with Mr. GUEST, the desirable
defeat of Sir G. WA R RENDER might be anticipated.
At STAFFORD, in spite of corruption, two reformers have
been returned.

At Rix DON, Mr. Twiss is in a ludicrous minority.

At GUILDFORD, it is important that Messrs. NORTON
and MANGLES head the poll, against SUMN ER and WALL,
two anti-reformers.

We shall continue these exhilirating reports till the close

the Election.

The French F.stafette of this morning brings us, as wil
be seen from our extracts, an account of a serious con-
test, in which lives have been lost, between the people
of Dresden and their government, which appears to have
been entirely the result of procrastinating reform. We
cannot read such details without congratulating our coun-
trymen, that our KING has seen the wisdom of not being
tardy, when great objects are to be accomplished.

It appears that a Polish General, SIEREWSKI, having
crossed the Vistula, with 6,000 men, to assist in driving
the Russians out of the Palatinate of Lublin, ventured
to give battle to a Russian division of 20,000, under
WITT, but was defeated, and driven over the Vistula,
with considerable loss in killed and drowned. It would have
been more gratifying, if he had beaten WITT ; but with re-
ference to the main armies, it is u very remote affair, and
by no means justifies the rumours propagated through
the Prussian and Austrian Gazettes. It proves the con-
tempt of the Poles for the Russians, that six thousand
should have gieen battle to 20,000. The main Polish army
is concentrating at 11Itrrsx, and the Russians are dispersing
for want of provisions, which appear to be cut off, though
the Prussian Government is daily active in pouring in
supplies from their neutral provinces.
A dispatch from General SKRZYNECKI, dated le na-
sEtow, which we do not find in our maps, gives important
details of the successes of Umissxt on hie left,
and of DWERNECKI in Volhynia ; and various reports
state, that he has beaten RUDIGER, who was opposed
to him. Lithuania, a country as large as Ireland, is also
proved to be in general insurrection; but it is doubtful at
present, whether Wilna is in possession of the Poles or the
Russians.

In another part of our paper we insert a •ery interest-
ing account of an aerial voyage on Saturday, by one of
our Essex friends, Dr. Forster, of Boreham, in the bal-
loon of Mr. Green, who on that day made his 88th suc-
cessful ascent, from Chelmsford.

SiR WALTER SCOTT.—We are exceedingly gratified to
learn, both from direct and indirect sources, that our last
week's Edinburgh correspondent had overrated the danger
of Sir Walter's ilium. It was a smart attack of infiam-
mation, which yielded to free bleeding. He is now better.
Long may he be well !—Bpactator.