Star.
London, England, 1831-03-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The most contradictory reports circulate upon Spain, and
they are so vague that one cannot condense them. A letter
from Figuieras, of the Gth March, which arrived to us by
Perpignan, states--Insurrectional movements agitate the
environs of Valencia. The royal guard which composed the
garrison of Barcelona, has left for Madrid. On the other
side a telegraphic despatch arrived, which announces—Tor-
rijos has landed at San-Fernando ; in spite of the union of
his troop with a battalion of marines, he was vigorously
repulsed, several men were killed, and a great number re-
main prisoners. The same day the Governor of Cadiz was
assassinated. The people remain calm and indifferent to
these two events.—Meuager des Chambres.
ENGLAND.
FIRST READING OF Till BILL Or REFORM.—It is
impossible not to be struck, in reading the Debates of the
House of Commons, with the urgent necessity of the Bill
of Reform, presented by the Ministry ; and that necessity is
especially demonstrated, by the words even of those who
attack the Bill, and provoke the rejection. Political cor-
ruption, carried to this point, ceases to be culpable ; it is
inherited in the nature of these men ' • it is no more than the
result of prejudices which they date from infancy, and they
are willing to prove it, by advertising it thus loudly, No
wonder it is wished to change a system which has pro-
duced such personages. A member of the present oppo-
sition, M. Percival, could find no better argument
to defend the rotten boroughs, than to advance that
all public interests resolve themselves into money ; and the
boroughs being purchaseable by money, it was evident
that all interests found access into parliament, and were re-
presented. Another member, M. Melburne(?) made an ob-
jection which must, according to him, go straight to the
heart of ministers, and decide them to withdraw the bill.
When they had no more rotten boroughs, said he, the mi-
nistry will no longer have any creatures in the Chamber.
Then how can thy govern ? How could he suppose that
any government would allow itself to be in such a state of
decrepitude, to accommodate itself to such innocent sincerity?
Lord John Russell supported his motion with remarkable
dignity and talent. He recalled the words of the famous
Lord Chatham—" If the Chamber does not reform itself
from within, it will be reformed from without with a ven-
geance." Only three voices opposed the first reading of the
bill.—Le Temps.

ADDITIONAL EXTRACTS
FOX TM MORNING PAPERS.

On Saturday evening the King presided at a council of
ministers. The council did not rise till after 11 o'clock.
The King gave a private audience also to Baron Louis, M.
Bonvalet Deputy, and Admiral Lord Cochrane.—A letter
from Pont de Beauvoisin, dated March 9, says—' The
Prince of Carignan has just left Chambery in great haste,
to return to Turin. The King is in the last extremity, and
probably dead at the moment I write. We are assured that
the project avowed by the Prince is to signalize his ascent
to the shrone by the grant of a constitutional charter,
adapted to the wants of Piedmont. The accession of this
Prince, who was so many years exposed to the enmity of
Austria, cannot fail to exercise a great influence over the
affairs of Italy. The most perfect tranquillity reigns in
Savoy. There is no longer any question about Piedmontese
refugees, However, the Sardinian troops sent in aid to
Pont de Beauvoisin remain there.'—We believe the Journal
du Commerce de Lyon very well informed on what regards
the demand of the Austrian intervention for the Pope. As
to the consequences deduced from it, and the views of the
departure of General Gerard for the frontier of Piedmont,
it is not yet true.—Mcssayer des Chambres.
A number of students met again on Saturday on the
place of the Pantheon, where were stationed three compa-
nies of the 24th Regiment of the line and a squadron of
hussars. This assemblage not having assumed any offen-
sive character, the troops retired. The groups however sub-
sequently multiplied, and young men, well dressed, began
to harangue the people to disorder. Some workmen,
who had hitherto remained peaceable spectators of this scene,
advanced at length towards the orators, and complained I
of the tumults which the students had excited, attri-1
bating to them all the uneasiness and distrust which

afflicted the public At this moment the National '
Guard, reinforced by the line, defiled through the four
streets which border the angles of the place, and
in the twinkling of an eye the assemblage was completely
! invested ; a certain number of arrests were then
amid the applause of the inhabitants of this quarter. We
add to these details, that a certain number of young men
who, at the same time, paraded the fauxbourgs St. Marceau
and St. Antoine, in the hope of exciting a tumult, were very
ill received -oy the working population, and many of them
were obliged to fly for safety, from the menaces of the
working classes, who were irritated at these unworthy at-
tompts.—Le Temps.
The Journal de Paris says, that many of these students
were armed with poniards, and would have been sacrificed
by the workmen, had it not been for the interference of the
military. Saturday there were some assemblies of young
men. This agitation, without an object, occasions a display
of force which fatigues the troops and National Guard ; it
disturbs commerce, and finishes even by irritating the work-
men, who attribute their want of emplovent to these con-
tinual assemblages ; some of them on Saturday gave indeed
unequivocal manifestations of their sense of these inces-
sant gatherings. The news of the disaster in Poland
has produced, and ought to produce, a lively agitation ; but
we know now, that the cause of Poland is neither lost, nor
despaired of ; there is no reason then for continuing demon-
strations which have grown out of a wrong impression. The
greater number of Saturday's groups were exclaiming,—
' War, war.' Now we know a great number of citizens and
of National Guards, who, without crying out for war, are
determined to run to the frontier, at the first signal of
danger. These citizens have already begun by signing en •
gagements to march forthwith wherever it may be necessary.
It seems to us that this is the proper course to follow. It
is the first way to know each other ; to rally ; in fact to engage
to pay in our persons, and to annonnce to the country the
number of those upon whom it may count for its defence, in
seconding the efforts of the army. This proceeding has been
followed in a great number of the departments, and it is,
according to our opinion, more efficacious, and more imposing
than these tumultuous cries, which wany people are uttering
without feeling themselves more engaged to the country on
that account.—Le Courier Francais.

The prosecution, of which the Globe is now the object,
has no relation to any article of our politics ; they refer
siw.ly to the insertion of a notice in our number of the
10th, which is mixed up indiscriminately with a crowd
of different others, under the title of Miscellaneous
news.' It was as follows We are requested to
insert the following notice :—The young gentlemen of
the schools are invited to meet to-morrow, the 11th of
March, at one o'clock, upon the Place of the Pantheon.'
As it happened to be on the 11th that hostile demonstra-
tions were made against the Russian Ambassador, attri-
buted, whether right or wrong, to students, the ministry
have thought they saw in the above insertion a provocation
to this act of barbarity. We thought, however, that we
had, with sufficient clearness and explicitness, expressed our
opinions upon the occasion of the cries for death, uttered
last December against the ex-ministers, as well as upon the
devastations of February, to have saved us from the possi-
bility of even harbouring- an idea of recommencing vie-
lence.—Lc Globe.

By the Dutch mail this morning, we are gratified in re-
ceiving some further particulars of the defeat of the Rus-
sian tioops, by the brave Poles. No doubt can now exist
on this subject.