Star.
London, England, 1831-09-21 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

At two o'clock, M. Berenger, the reporter of
the commission, appeared with the report of the
peerage law ; it was extremely long, and occupied
considerable time in the reading. It commenced
by examining the right of the peers to join in
the discussion of this question, and observed
that the chain which united the two Cham-
bers in legislative censultation had never been
broken ; that on the Sd of August, 1830, the ses-
sion had been opened by- the Lieutenant-General
of the kingdom in the presence of the two Cham-
bers ; that they 11:c1 both deliberated upon and
voted for the revision of the charter that on the
7th of August Louis Philip swore to support the
charter in the presence of the two Chambers ; in a
word, that both had concurred in remodellinz
the constitution. From this the report concluded
that the two Chambers hare an equal right to take
part in the discussion of the 23d article, which
was now to be revised. It repelled the opinion of
those who bad called for the intervention of the
primary assemblies in the consideration of the na-
tional affairs, an opinion which would be to recall
chaos. The report then examined the connexion
which existed between two such Chambers in the va-
rious constitutional Government' and insisted from
thence, that the Peers ought to be a moderatinf
power, and different in its composition and object
to that of an elected Chamber. The mission of
the Chamber of Peers was to arrest, in certain
cases, the progress of events. The basis of this
Chamber being thus fixed, it was necessary to
examine if the nomination of Peers ought to be
effected by popular election, by lists of candidates,
or directly by the King. If the electoral mode
be employed, whatever be its conditions or modi-
fications, the Chamber of Peers would soon become a
Chamber of Deputies,thus giving two similar Cham-
bers. The principle of election was not compatible
with immoveability. The commission therefore
rejected the principle of election. As to the elec-
tion by lists of candidates, it would be merely a
fiction, and always easy to force the will of the
King, by joining with the persons whom popular
feeling might wish to appoint to the peerage, other
persona notoriously incapable and unfit. The direct
appointment of peers becomes then indispensable,
but it will be for Ministers a source of great re-
sponsibility. The reporter then states, that
his own opinion was decidedly for the here-
ditary right,—that a Chamber of Peers, as
a moderative Chamber could have no force
without this right. This the reporter declares
to be the opinion of the minority of the
Commission. The reporter concluded by announ-
' cing to the Chamber, that it was the opinion of the
Commission that the peerage should not be here-
ditary, but for life ; that the King should alone be
invested with the right of naming the Peers ; and
that, finally, the present law should be definitive,
not provisional, as proposed by the Ministers. The
report, in fact, affirmed the whole project of Mi-
nisters for remodelling the Peerage, except making
the measure a definitive one, and not provisionary.
It was said that the questions about Poland and
Belgium were not to be discussed on Monday
evening.

THE DISTURBANCES.

PARIS, MONDAY EVIRING.—You will see
by the journals what has been the state of this
metropolis within the last three days—in fact, since
the sad intelligence reached Paris that Warsaw
had fallen, afters heroic e.
I have seen all the riots last year; but this
last riot, in one respect, differed from them. The
people who gathered into street crowds were better
dressed than the mobs which beset the Luxem-
bourg Palace during the trial of the ministers, and
pulled down the Archbishop's dwelling. The
young men of the schools, and persons apparently
mixing a good deal in society, were the rioters of
yesterday and Saturday ; few of them were with-
out strong sticks, and many, I believe, had conceal-
ed fire-arms ; loaded pistols were, indeed, found
' upon some prisoners. I certainly did not see the
working people so much engaged in these last crowds
as they were in the previous ones.
Besides this difference in the class of men who
composed these last street crowds, there was also
another and a very serious distinction observable.
The National Guards did not answer well to the
rappel. I have spoken to many who frankly
avowed, that they would not take up arms to
extinguish popular sympathy for the Poles.
—Enow did assemble to preserve the public
peace, but there were thousands of others who
heard with inattention the drum beat to arms.
The regiments of the line, cavalry and infantry,
were oui in greater force than I remember to hove
previously seen in the streets, and they turned
a deaf ear to the insidious hints of Long live the
Line,' which were uttered by the crowd, and rode
over numbers of people by word of command,
when the order for dispersion was pronounced.
Indeed they were foolish in some of their charges.
for they galloped on Saturday night through the
covered passage in the Rue V ivienne, on the smooth
lags and steps of which horses and men rolled In
boisterous confusion.

Two gunsmiths' shops wen plundered, and in

three or four places the people -resisted the autho-
rities by flinging stones, and attempting to erect
barriers; these attempts were quite fruitless, and
some bayonet and sabre wounds were inflicted on
the occasion ; but no loss of life, as far as I can
learn, except that of a young man, who was killed
near the exchange by the explosion of a pistol in
his own waistcoat pocket : there have been a great
number of arrests, and a republican club was sur-
prised, it is said, while engaged in preparing a plan
of insurrection.

There is a great fermentation of party spirit, and
2vidently a want ef moral strength in the Govern-
ment. They are strong enough to repress these
ebullitions of popular feeling when they arise, but
they are unequal to the prevention of their recur-
rence ; and there must always be great mischief in
these effervescing elements, which are constantly
flowing upon the surface of Parisian society.
This day the general appearance of the city is
not tranquil. There are crowds in the vicinity of
the Palais Royal, near the Chamber of Deputies,
lnd at the Exchange, but they appear to be com-
posed of persons assembled rather out of curiosity
than for tumult. The garrison are all under arms,
and I see not the least chance of serious popular out-
csge. The people every where yield to the move-
ments of the troops and the police.
Still the crowds move from place to place, and
the expressions used at times indicate very out-
rageous feelings. When the ministers are per-
sonally assailed in the streets, as was the case
vesterday,--when the King, who mostly has en-
loved individual popularity, is treated with disre-
4ard,—it is not difficult to foresee the result of
continued inquietude. All business is at a
stand. Whilst I write the drums are beating to
arms, and the troops are forming in the Place Ven-
dome, the Palais Royal, and the quay in front of
the Chamber of Deputies. Several of the National
Guards positively refuse to act this day, and that
r•ports to that effect have been made to the lieneral
-.tall. However, I see that enough are in activity
to repress tumult : every where, in fact, the sol-
diers appear to me to act.

The town is inundated with reports—a change
of Ministry—an abdication of the King. The
King and all the Royal Family, who had gone to
Tend a short time at Neuilly, have returned to
Paris ; even the younger children were brought in
:his morning. It is difficult to gather real infor-
mation in the midst of the prevailing excitement ;
I do not imbibe the alarms of serious riots
t! is night, which people are actively spreading.
Wherever I turn my eyes, although I see angry
aid ill-disposed crowds, yet I also see strongly
armed civic and military force ready to act with
promptitude, and I also find the authorities compe-
tent to arrest individuals and bear them off to the
prisons even in tho midst of these throngs. There
i; a good deal of political rancour abroad, and
much of pinching distress among the people; and
these are bad ingredients for assuring repose.
The funds rallied this day, the monied men and
..:linisters having made a strong effort to sustain
the present King against the patriotic party. Ap-
pearances at four o'clock are calmer than they
core tw•o hours ago.

Fresh attempts at disorder occurred this day
(Sunday) but the presence of an imposing military
force,and the attitude of the population,disconraged
the malevolent, and frustrated, all their designs.
They undertook nothing which was not on the in-
stant repressed, and in the evening the streets were
13 clear as upon days of the greatest tranquillity.—
Between 12 and 1 o'clock in the day, a numerous

assemblage was formed in the garden and court of
the Palais Royal. The most culpable cries and vo-
ciferation, were beard; strong detachments of the
National Guard and infantry of the line soon arri-
ved, and immediately cleared the court and the
galleries, Mat not without resistance. The most
riotous was arrested. Once driven from the palace,
the crowd was soon completely dispersed ; but to-
wards 6 o'clock in the evening they again collected
upon the Place of the Palais Royal, and at
the entrance of the street St. Honors up to Rue
du Coq. Two troops of cavalry soon re-estab-
klied the passage of the neighbourhood, while the
town serjeanta made several arrests, almost all of
them designated by the information given by citizens.
During this time the sarong battalions of the Na-
tional Guards were stationed on the boulevards,
uhere their presence prevented disorder. It re•
mains to us to signalise the most important inci-
dent of the day,—the arrest of about twenty in-
dividuals, who were in the house of M. Dulemison,
a wine-seller in the street of St. Louis, to project
as it would seem, the disorders for the evening. The
authorities, apprised in time of this intention, beset
the house; the disturbers finding themselves invest..
td.!!arriended themselves within doors and refused
(.bey the summonses to open in the name of tin
They were then obliged to break open the
dc,,r, and all who were found in the house were
:An before the Prefect of the Police. In the,
r,m:taber taken was M. Chauvin, a member of the
Society of the Friends of the People, and a mu
ranted Blanchard, called Silverchin, one es
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otßeers of the division of La Croix. A
r.iir of loaded pistols were found upon
Chauvin ; the others also carried arms. The
teal of the National Guard, of the troops of
le line, and the Municipal Guard, was not for a
.ontent relaxed; it is more indefatigable than the
oLitinacy of those who bring it to the test. The
toA n-serjeants exposed themselves in order to make
wrests in the midst of the groups, and many of
'll(mi have been grievously wounded. Marshal
Count l.obau, who actively directed all the mei.-
'I7ES of the day, appeared in all quarters at the
I of his staff. If similar attempts are renewed
morrow, measures are already taken for repress-
them with the same promptitude and efficacy.—
, ,litor of Monday.
IN •••-4t is affirmed, that the note lately
,sert..rl by the Charge d'Affaires of France to
Cabinet of Madrid contains the following
'Tae :--" That any protection given by the
'l'ernment of hie Catholic Majesty to the power
hid) reigns de facto in Portugal, would be c,,n-
Jered by France as a violation of the principle of
ion intervention adoptedby Europe ; that France,so
yeeing with England, would energetically resist,
concert with that Power, any co-operation tend-
ig to repulse the efforts of his Majesty Don Pedro
enforce the rights of his august daughter.' The
inister of foreign affairs bas here something to
rink of, nod the more so, as it is affirmed that M.
4tiani adds :—' That the entrance of a single
mil6sh soldier into the territory of Portugal would
Ponsidered by France as a declaration of war,

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21.
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Ox= o'Csocz, TIM Day—Thermometer, 83. Be.
mower, 29.78. Weather, showery. Wind S.W.

Warsaw is taken—the brave Poles no longer
engage the barbarous hordes of Tartary and Siberia :
and no longer distract the Councils of the Autocrat
at Petersburg ! We learn, therefore, by the Brus-
sels Mail of the 18th, that an express arrived in
Brussels that afternoon from the Hague, by which
it appears, that the King of HOLLAND has just
announced to the Chambers, that he is going to
resume hostilities very shortly. This accords with
our observations yesterday ; and if the Poles do
not continue to harrass the Russian armies, the
Holy Alliance may be expected to appear in the
field early in the spring. Power, founded on the
choice of the people, we may depend upon it, will
not be tolerated, while there are vagabonds and
barbarians to form the armies of despots.

Since the establishment of a free Constitution
in Brasil, the public feel a lively interest in all
which regards that splendid country of natural cc•
pabilities, and in an adjoining column we give the
result of a formidable insurrection, which was
at first suppressed, and its recurrence prevented
by removing the cause—a VEXATIOUS STREIT
POLICE.

By the Brussels mail, we learn, by an extract
from the Journal of Luxembourg, that the Con-
ference is about to give us more last words in a
forty-first Protocol! These Gentlemen are pro-
bably paid—like the Commissioners of Bankrupts
—by the sitting; and hence, the convenient mul-
tiplication of them. If they were content, like
the Bankrupt Commissioners, with a single guinea

a piece, and if their deliberations, like those of the
latter, only produced a law-suit or two, and a con-
fusion among a petit body of creditors, the
multiplicity of Conferences would at least be
innocent ; but we suspect that fire guineas do not
reimburse these illustrissimi, while their pasties •
is of the most serious character to the world.,
This forty-first protocol is to regulate—lst,, tho'
departure of the French troops. god. To declare
that the Grand Duchy is a German principality,
and excluded from all combinations relative to
Belgium; that measures concerning the armistice)

do not regard it ; and that King Wru.isw, and the
German Confederation, have a right to occupy it.
The last night's Gazette, it will be observed•
contains no new creation of Peers—of itself, suffi-
cient evidence that the Ministers consider their
majority in the House of Lords as assured. At
the same time, the last dying speeches of the
Boroughmongers, aid rotten borough Members, is
a proof that these gentlem'en conceive that they
shall never have another opportunity of hearing
their mellifluous voices, and displaying their
powers of ratiocination in the Legislature.—
Whatever therefore their words may import, we
are persuaded that they consider it as an expiring
exertion.

The following passages relative to POLAND,
and the BLACK CONGRESS OP VIENNA, appeared
this morning in a paper, as remarkable for the ver-
satility of its principles, and for blowing hot and
cold, as for the general talent and activity with
which we acknowledge it is conducted. It takes
for granted that mankind are concluded by the
Congress of Vienna• -not affecting to doubt the
legitimate power of such an assemblage, to dispose
of nations at their pleasure. This, we consider, as
so dangerous, and even so mischievous an admis-
sion, that we cannot allow it to pass unnoticed for
a single day. It is a mystifying apology for the
Ministers of France and England, which they merit
less, than the brilliant castigation which the same
paper bestowed on them yesterday ; and which we
can assure the writer of that article, atoned for
many sins, and compromising equivocations, of
which the paper in question has been often—too
often—guilty.

" With respect to Poland, the first intentions of England
were, that it should be re-established as a kingdom, under a
Prince of Its own, and that Prussia should be indemnified at
the expense of Saxony; and Lord Castlereagh, in the pre.
pushily discussions, by many notes, expressed himself re.
peakdly and 'via force, in the name of his' Court against
the erection of Poland into a kingdom which should make a
part of the imperial crown of Russia ; it being the desire of
his Coutt taste an independent power established in Poland,
more or less considerable, under a distinct dynasty, and as
an intermediary state between the three great monarchies."
—Hiss. du Congres de Vienne, vol. li. p. 58.

But, unfortunately, it appears that Lord Castlereagh re-
ceded afterwards from these claims in behalf of Poland; for,
says the History, "seeing the impossibility of re-establish-
ing the independence of Poland, his Lordship contented
himself with demanding at least the diVhion of the duchy of
Warsaw (Poland, the only name by which Russia would
acknowledge the oi-dement kingdom). conformable to the
treaties in which there is the intervention of England either
as a party or guarantee, announcing that she is indifferent
how much Runk retains of it, provided that she leave to
Prussia and Austria their military frontiers. But the Empe-
roe Alexandet observed,that theßusaiannation,whkh had made
so many sacrifice for the common cause, would think Itself
injured if the just reward of all her exertions should be re-
fused to her, which was only to be found In the duchy of
Warsaw (Poland) whole and entire. However the reason-
ings of Lord Cistkreagh,when submitted to the judgment of
a Prince at ones just and reasonable, were not without suc-
cor, for Alexander consented to allow to Prussia snd Aus-
tria considerable portions of the Duchy of Warsaw."—
Hist. du Cotters& de V Mine, vol. IL p. 68.

According to the tenonr of these statements, the very
first article of " the general act of Congress" consigns Po•
land, under the name of Warsaw, irrevocably to Russia,
with the exception of the parts spoken of above, assigned to
the other two Powers.

" Art. 1. The Duchy of Warsaw, with the exception of
the provinces and &attics otherwise disposed of in the fol-
lowing articles, is united to the Russian empire. It shall
be irrevocably bound to it by its constitution, to be possessed
by his Imperial Majesty of all the Russias, his heirs, and
successors, in perpetuity. His Imperial Majesty reserves
to himself the power of giving to that state, enjoying &dis-
tinct administration, such internal extension as he shall
judge convenient. He shall take, with his other titles of
Czar, &c. that of King of Poland."

" The Poles, respec tire subjects of Russia, Austria,
and Prussia, shall obtain a representation and national
institutions, regulated according to the mode of political ex-
istence which each of the Governments to which they belong
shall judge it useful and befitting to grant to them:—
Ads General du Conyres, Art. 1.

Now, for our part., we regard all the proceed-
ings of this self-elected Congress, as far as regards
their interference with the civil rights of the people
of Europe, without their free consent, as a mani-
fest usurpation, and as an outrage which all people
are bound to resist. We concede nothing whatever
to the insolent pretensions of this Congress. It
was an assembly of crowned despots, and int-
Mary chieftains, flushed with an ascendancy which
they had gained by fraud, bribery. and treachery.
They were mere beggars on horseback, having for
twenty years been placed in their proper state of
subordination, by the genius of NAPoLzox. It
mankind have submitted to their insolent arrange-
ments, and have allowed themselves to be delivered
over like cattle, without regard to their civil rights,
religion, customs, and privileges, it has been
felt as an ignominious submission to brute-force.
The right of resistance, and all right, natural and
moral, appertains to them, and their cause, as often
as they think prudent to ;oppose by force the
usurpations to which they have unjustly been sub-
jugated. On this ground, the cause of the Belgians
was a holy cause; that of the Poles is a holy cause;
and that of the Venetians, Genoese, Westphalian',
Luxemborghers, &c. &c. would be a holy cause,
if they found it expedient to assert all the indepen-
dence and civil rights which they enjoyed, before
this usurping self-constituted Congress, had the
audacity to proclaim, and enforce its arrange-
ment'. In fine, the Congress of Vienna had no
legitimate powers for many of the objects which
it presumed to effect ; and in all such cases re-
sistance to its dicta is a justifiable duty. The
French; Revolution of July. was the most for-
midable attack on its domineering 'arrangements ;
and hence the Cause of other people who sought
emancipation from the same shackles, was in so

peculiar and immediate a manner, the Cause of the
people of France. The passages quoted above,
serve as a text to these observations; but it should
be considered that the sentiments adopted by
the writer are those of a supple and time-serving
historian, who promised himself some advantages
from emblazoning the deeds of this contemptible
Congress.
In the House of Lords last night, the Archbi-
shop's Plurality Bill advanced a stage ; but Lord
Tenterden tried to mar it, by proposing that the
distance of two benefices should be forty-five miles
instead of thirty ; the original proposition wns,
however, carried by 53 to 13.

A discussion then arose about the Bankruptcy
Court Bill, between the Ex-Lord Chancellor, the
Lord Chancellor de facto, and the ci-dcvant Lord
Chancellor, Eldon. It was an assertion of their
respective wisdom ; but the public, we are persuad-
ed, will give a decided preference to that of the
Chancellor de fact°. The fourteen Commissions
have been a great abuse, and have worked the
most cruel oppression—the whole is a system of
fraudulent connivance with low attornies, and
productive of ruin, both to (Idlers and creditors ;
and the overturning it, will be a subject of lasting
glory to the Chancellorship of Lord Brougham.
In the House of Commons, the necessity of
regulating steam packets was enforced by several
Members; but opposed by others, as fostering a
possible job.
Mr. Hunt made some pertinent enquiries, which
piqued the mawkish sensibility of some Courtier'
in the House, about the absence of the Duchess of
Kent and Princess Victoria, at the Coronation.—
Lord Althorp, in reply, stated, that misrepresen-
tations had been published ; but that his Majesty
was satisfied with the reasons given ; but what the
reasons were did not appear, though Mr. Croker
complimented his Lordship on the explanation !
The concise motion that " this Bill do past"
produced a renewed display of pertinacious ego-
tism, till nearly one o'clock : when by adjourn-
ment, another opportunity is afforded for a similar
display to-night.
As many readers7t="l"—nore importance to the
issue of the ST. Leona race, than to the P.eform,
the Warsaw, or the Perier questions, we have taken
some pains to ascertain that it was yesterday won
by Chorister, and that the Saddler was second.
ROYAL RXCLIANOR, ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 81 # for
the Account, opened at 82, went up to 82 A ; at
present they are 82.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols have been fluctuating during the morn-
ing from 82*, down to 811, at present they are
811 Buyers. In the Foreign Market Brazil Stock
has been from 561 to 58, are now 57k.
THREE O'CLOCK.
_ _

Bank Stock, shut. Three per Cent. Reduced, xhut.l
Muse per Cent. Consols, 81/ f. Three and a Half per
Cent. 1818, shut. Three and a Half per Cent. Red.
shut. Three and a Half per Cent. New, 891 I. Four
per Cent. 1826, shut. Long Annuities, Jan. 1890, shut.
Annuities, Oct. 1859, shut; do. Jan. 1860, 16 15.16 13.16
India Stock, —; do. Bonds, t die. par. 51000 Eache.
quer Bills, 10 9 ; £5OO do. 10 9 ; dlOO and £2OO do.
11 10 12; Advertised, Bank for Account, 1971. Con-
sole for Account,Zil
This day the Ktwo held a Levee at St. James'..
Palace. Being a collar day, the Knights of the
different orders appeared in their decorations.
After the Levee, there was, as usual, a Privy
Council.

This day the Marquis de PALMELLA had au in-
terview with Earl GREY.

To-morrow their M A I EST tts,together with a long
train of the Royal Family and Nobility, aro going
to Woolwich, to sea the launch of the Thunderer.

REFORM. BREAD-STREET WARD. —This
morning a Meeting of this Ward was held at the
White Horse, Friday-street, Alderman Ansley
in the Chair. Several Resolutions were adopted,
expressive of their surprise and indignation at
the reports which bad been circulated by the
enemies of the bill, that the people were becoming
indifferent to its fate, and declaratory of their
earnest desire that it may pass into a law. The
meeting was addressed by Messrs. Lawrence,
Batman, Beeton, and Brand, and a petition, pray-
ing the Lords to pass the Bill, as sent,, to them
from the Commons, was agreed to.
Mr. G IV ILL E's case against Sir Jon xOw ex's
return for Pembrokeshire, closed on Tuesday;
and to-day Mr. Sergeant Spankie was heard in
reply, but the case will occupy several other days.
At a meeting of the Working-class Society on'
Tuesday night, at the Prince of Wales, Exeter-
street, Brompton, Mr. E. Dias SANTOS in the
chair, a petition to tl.e House of Lords in favour of
the Reform bill was agreed to.


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