Star.
London, England, 1831-09-16 00:00:00

BEIREST AT ELECTION.

Lord J. RUSeTillinren;tice that on that day fort-
night lit should move for leavz to bring in a bill to emend
the laws on bribery and corruption in elections.—(Cheery.)

coax LAW&

Mr. HUNT said. he tOwrose to bring forward the
motion of whicia he had given notice, on the first day he
entered the house. He regretted that a subject of such
vital importanc: as the corn laws should not fall into
more able hands; but at least he should give Ministers
an opportunity of expressing their sentiments on the tub -
ject. He hoped they would at least hold out some pros-
pect of amelioration in .he present system, if they were
not disposed to go the length of his (Mr. H.'s) motion,
which we., that all laws restricting the importation of corn
should be abolished. He knew he should be told that it was
impossible fur our farnien to compete with the foreigner,
owing to their wavy burdens. He would admit at once that
nis motion necessitated a diminution of those burdens ; but
was it too much to require from the landowners end the
clergy a diminution of rain and tithes' which had been tripled
within the last :orty years. Political economists would tell
tii;:nt that Cie i:ew system would turn to their own emolument.
However that migh, be, he considered that it was necessitated
by the general distress of the lower orders. He then entered
into a series of calculations, to prove that a free import of
foreign grain would bring down the English wheat to
two-thirds of its present price, and that thereby the annual
expeediture on bread In this country would be diminished
'by upwards of thirty millions. He next commented on
an article in the Times, in which the prohibition of fo-
reign where was termed a rebellion against Heaven,"
when the population of this country had so much out-
stripped the produce of the soil. He did nut attach par
ticular importance to what a bridles& barrister might write
In his cabinet; but it sheaved, at lean, that the present
restrictive system was disagreeable to his readers, and
to the public. Another proof of the sense of the public
on this question was, that the first of the pledges which
I the electors of Bolton intended to require from their
representative in the reformed parliament, was a total repeal
of the corn laws. When the member for Bolton came in
next session, if he bought forward a law for the regulation
of primogeniture, he would not want a seconder; that is, if
he were there, and be was sure he might be there if he
chose—(a laugh)—he bad had very good assurance of that
very lately, he could assure them. (Great laughter.) He
bad opposed the corn laws fifteen years egos be was always
opposed to them becaese he thought that they bad merely been
I instituted for the purpose of making the farmen pay high rents
and high taxes. I'he consequence was, the utmost misery ex- I
isted among the labouring claws. He did not think it was
possible for the poor people to exist on what they existed
upon. He gave a grievous picture of the hardships endured by
the labouring classes, which he had been an eye witness to.
He was sues that this could not long be borne; and he
would call upon the landowners to make a sacrifice at the
proper time. He was satisfied that the Reform-Bill would
not cure these evils; and if the people imagined such would
Ibe the cus they would find themselves egregiously mis.
taken. The Hon. Member went on to draw • comparison
between the prices acorn In this and foreign countries. He
said he was satisfied that a repeal of the corn laws would
affect the landlord, but not so much as it would be a relief
to the poor. The repeal of the corn laws would also be a
relief to the farmers who, lie was certain, were paying
their rents out of die small remainder of capital that they
had left. He would therefore he knew that he
I would be laughed at for it--but e would move for a Com-
mittee of the whole house for a total and an immediate repeal
dill the existing laws that prevented a free importation of
corn. If this was refused, he would say that then there
ought to bean end to all pretensions of free wide.
Mr. JAMES said be was quite of the opinion with the
hon. member for Preston, that the Corn Laws were most
iniquitous. He was aware that titers was some diSculty in
broaching this subject In a hornet's nest—the landed interest •
but nevertheless he would stand up and second the motion:
He, however, differed from the hoc. member (Mr. Hunt)
in saying that the Reform Bill would be no benefit to the
people ; for he was one that the first act of a reformed par-
liament would be to repeal the corn laws. He was of opinion
that high-priced bread was a great evil to the country. If the
corn laws were passed for the protection of the land-owners, he
could prove from fee s that they did not answer the purpose,
for after the parsing of Mr. Peel's bill the price of corn
fell to ;ruinous prices. Yet we were; year after year im-
porting corn at a great disadvantage. The most that he
possessed was in land, yet he thought that something was
due to the labouring classes. Those who knew nothing
but the splendour of this metropolis, did not know any
thing of the misery that existed in the manufacturing dis-
tricts. He had seen than in their wretched hovels, with
not enough to cover their nakedness. (A laugh.) He
would call upon thou to make a sacrifice, who kept four
horses to be contented with two —(a laugh)—and those
with two to be contented with one—(a laugh)—and those
with one let them walk. The luxury of the few were no.
thing to be taken into account, compared with the misery
of the million. The Honourable Member concluded with
saying, that although he felt it his duty to second the mea-
sure, he did not expect that there were twelve Members in
the House would support than.
Mr. BENETT thanked the hon. member for Preston for
having used his name, as it alluded him an opportunity of
all his ar most dedds contradiction to senious.
living the mile o. member proceeded
ntrad
to prove from facts, that the
hon. bomember (Mr. Hunt) had been in error, and said that
he thought the introduction of the question was ooly a sub-
tle artifice to injure the great question of Reform, by intro-
ducing it at this time.
Mr. HUME said be was as great an enemy to the corn
laws as any one, bat he thought there was a time for every
thing,and this was not the time foe distracting the attention o:
the house in the midst of a question that would lead to so many
important changes, or which the corn laws, he hoped, would
form a part. The hen. member at great length analysed the
speech of Mr. Hunt, and deprecoted his assertion, that the
corn laws were for the benefit of of the landowners ; and also
deprecated the ides that landlords should be compelled to
make a sacrifice. Hr was duly impressed with the =pen-
ance of the measure; and he should not wish the country to
believe that the appeal had been rejected, and he would
therefore move the previous question.
Lewd ALTHORP was also impressed that the question ,
wu one of such importance as not to be disposed of in this
superficial manner; if it were pressed, he must say that it
ought to be negatived ; but be would accede to the motion
of the boo. Member for Middlesex.
Mr. U. La NO VON, Col.Tosna NS and Mr. STRICKLAND,
opposed the measure, =amount of Its being ill-timed.
111 r. GOULBURN said that it ought not to be left to
on the previous motion, but to be negatived at ODCC.

Lad A LTHORP explained, and adhered to his Cm...
pressient.
Mr. HUNT replied, in the course of which he was .
y laughed at, and annoyed with cries of " Oh, u!..
Crite complainedt loudly of that behaviour; but he afters re,
was called to order in speaking of the honourable mom,
for Wilts, by saying that " he did not believe a word ;
said." The " Oh's" litre were tremendous. He said h,
was determined to press his motion at this time, being the
most fitting, to show the country who was for, and who oaf
against the Corn Laws.
The gallery was cleared, and the House divided, wit.,
there were—
For the motion
Against it 197
Majority l9l
On our return to the gall. ry t e .ound
Mr. BERRIES stating his objections to the third read-
ing of the wire chain bill. lb allneed to the noble lord
having propost.d rt.her alarations in duti s rirch the bout.•
bad not sanctioned, and did not think the present entitled
to greater favour. He thorglit the measure was objection-
able, politically, commercially, and financially. The 31..
thucn treaty, which had existed 130 years, and become a
part of the policy of the country, should not be abandoned
without sufficient reason, which did not at present 5X:,;:
the commercial advantage :1 secured to this country by the
preference it procured fur woollens ia the markets of Por.
tugal ; and as a ir assure of finanat he could scarcely con-
ceive that increasing the duty of the wines of Portugal, and
lowering the duty on French winc,coold increase the revenue.
Lord AL'i'HORP arid, that the Irish Hon. Gentleman
bad called the at anion of the Hour. to the subject under
three heads, political, comm. cia.. and finaocid. The Right
Hon. Gentlemota had all- ded to his failure of reduction of
the dud.* h: had proposed. lie admitted that he had been
defeated in some of the reductions ha bad proposed ; but
he thought the country would be beneitted by the re.
ductions that hed token place ; the rep7al of the
duty on coals—the duty on printed calicoes and
the coning repeal of the day cn candies. (Hear, bear.)
The right bon...wattle gentleman appeared to say, that h:
(Lord Althorp) could do without any alteration of the trine
duty; but he rather thought the tight honourable gentle.
man spoke in irony. Certainly he could not, after the re-
tluctiont.hat had been made, affonl to give up 180,0001.
revenue. which the proposed alteration was calculated to pro-
duce. Tits tight honourable gentleman argued against the
alteration as to injurious change in our political policy._
In this Its wholly differed with the right honourable gent.
He thought we should improve our political and column-
dal relations with Franctr. ; and in doing to is the present
ins once we should not violate any engagement with Porto.
gal. by whom it could not be regarded as any thing un-
friendly. The right hon. gentleman admitted that it less
just commercial policy to cp:n our trade with rich countries
This was admitted as a general principle, and it was his de-
sire to carry it into effect as speedily as possible. Ile
sot think w: should lore sue export trade to Portugal, bt.
canoe we could supply the manuf.wturcs she wanted cheaper
than any other country. The right hon. gentleman argued
against we m.uure financially, on the ground that it would
diminish consumption of the wines of Portugal; but he
did not think if would have that effect, at least It would only
produce that effect by increasing the consumption of the
wines of FfanCe ; for he could not contemplate any reduction
in the commmption of wine in this country. He therefore
hoped the House would agree to the measure.
After some remarks from Mr. Goulburn and Mr.
Briscoe, the Bill was read a third time, and passed.
The other Orders of the Day baying been disposed of, the
House Adjourred at a Quancr.past Two o'Clock.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
POUND.

DUTCH MAILS-RECEIVFD THIS DAY.

CRACOW, SEPT. 3.—The Courier of this city
contains no direct news from Warsaw, as the com-
munication between Warsaw and Cracow is inter-
rupted, and hence it is a long time since we have
received the Polish Journals from the capital ;
on the other hand the Courier gives many reports
derived partly from private letters, partly from the
statements of travellers who have arrived here, the
authenticity of which there is the more room to
doubt, as they aro partly at variance with one
another, and equally so with the authentic ac-
counts already made known through other chan-
nels. Among these accounts are the following :
That according to merchants' letters from Brody,
the reserve under Count Tolstoy had been de-
feated by the Poles, and the military chest taken :
another report adds that General Krukowiecki,
after he was placed at the head of the Government,
had immediately given orders to the Commander-
in-Chief, Prondzynski, to attack Field Marshal
Paskewltach on the whole line, and in consequence
of this, the Russians had been obliged to retreat.
In contradiction to this news, which the Courier
gave in its yesterday's number, affirming at the
same time, that the Russian army was already 10
(50) miles from Warsaw ; the same paper gives
to-day, from a private letter, the news of an at-
tack male by the grenadiers of Schacboffskoi, in
the fortifications of Warsaw, nearWola, announced
to have taken place on the 24th August, in which
the Russians were repulsed with very con-
siderable loss by the Poles, so that it was hoped
in Cracow, that the communications with Warsaw
would soon be open again. The Courier affirms,
that it has received through a private channel, the
Warsaw journal, " Polak Sumienny," of 17th
August, from which the account of the murders
in that capital is taken, in these words, that Jan-
kowski, Hurteg, Bukowski, Fentscb, Fansbawe,
and Madame Bazanow, had been punished with
death ; that besides this several spies had been
taken, and hanged out of the city. The Couirer
then affirms, that the Russians themselves make
no secret of the total defeat of General Golownin,
and adds, that a citizen who had arrived from
Kielce, had positively announced that that general
was defeated, and that the Poles occupied Lublin
Col. Koss, who was before affirmed to have fought
his way from Samogitia to the Dwina, is now said
to have returned with a great number of patriots
from Lithuania and Warsaw.

With respect to General Rogyski, the Courier
of to-day says, that according to a generally spread
report, he had taken Radom ; the Duke of Vfnr-
temburg who commanded there, having retreated
on being informed in time of the approach of the
Poles. But the same journal contained yesterday,
an order of the day, dated so late as Aug. 25, from
Ostrow icz, addressed by General Rozyski, as com-
mander-in-chief of the forces in the province of
Cracow, Sandomir, and Kabuli, to all superior
and other officers of the following tenor:—
" It having been signified to me, that many offi-
cers, without authority from the national govern-
ment and the Commander-in-Chief, have collected
at different points smaller detachments, under the
pretext of acting as partisans and remain inactive,
even to the injury of their own army in the
rear, have resolved to summon all officers without
exception, who possess such corps, to appear
with their corps within three days at Kielce ; there
to present themselves to Colonel Obrechowit:,
from whom they will receive further orders. Any
of those officers who do not obey the present
order, shall be considered as a traitor to his country,
and arrested and delivered to the military tribunals,
and punished with death, and his name shall be for
ever branded, by being published in the journals
as a traitor. At the same time, therefore, that I
enjoin all civil and military authorities strictly to

ce ,Ite this order, I declare that he shall be liable
the same punishment, who shall know of such
carps, and not give information of it to the civil
athority,—General WEISSENHOF, in Kielce.

pas . —The Posen Gazette of Sept. 5, shows
the falsehood of many reports lately inserted in
the German Journals ; such as that the Russian
Gen.-gal Rudiger had been defeated, and driven
to Gallicia ; that Paskewitsch was retreating from
Warsaw ; that the massacres in Warsaw were
only fictions, contrived to deceive the Russians,
tie. and says :
‘• We can assure the public on good authority,
that all these things are mere inventions. Gene-
ral Sl:rzynecki has had no command since the 15th
Rozyzki, who is said to command against
General Itudiger, has only a few thousand men.
General Rudiger has not been surprised; the mas-
•;acre at Warsaw has but too certainly taken place;
!atly, neither Skrzynecki, nor any body else, is
;one to Lithuania."
On the other hand, we will communicate to the
public a true piece of news : In the night of the2Bth
•f August, the Russian General Ronne, com-
nanding the detachment that coveted the bridge
it Osick, was informed that a strong 139-
!sh force was advancing against him. Hay-
In; sent a detachment of 200 cossacks toward
Steklinck to reconnoitre, he thought it necessary
;ni the 30th to secure his bridge. He according
several of the boats on which the bridge was
1,,;,d, removed, and withdrew with his infantry and
iris artillery to the left bank of the Vistula. When
i 3 cossacks returned, and found the bridge gone,
of them swam across the river: 146 retired into
the Prussian territory towards Szylno, whence
titer having performed, they will be sent along the
Frontier to Russia, in strict conformity with the
existing regulations. No engagement whatever
took place, and only two cossacks were made
prisomr'. Hitherto only a detachment of Craco-
vitt% who behaved in a very orderly manner, has
apt eared on the Prussian frontier ; and intended,
as they said, since the object of their expedition
had failed, to fall back to the main body, in the
province of Plosk. This is the authentic account 11
of an affair, out of which our German news menu-
ficturers fabricated the battle of Lepno, with which
:rev still amuse themselves.— -Prussian State Ga-
:rUe, Sept. 9.

From the Paris Papers.

BERLIN, SEPT. 3.—We have just received
aew•s from Thorn that the Russian troops have
experienced a considerable defeat. A Russian
courier has passed through Thorn in great speed.
However the details of the affair are so vague that
we can make out nothing exactly. It is said that
the bridge in the neighbourhood of Szylno, upon
the left bank of the Vistula, was suddenly broken
by the Russians; that all the magazines have
been transported upon the left bank ; that General
tratinski was following the Russians very closely,
and that terror was depicted upon the faces of the
Hu:sians. This pursuit may be but the result of
a preceding battle. The circumstance that the
Russians transport their magazines upon the left
tank would make one naturally suppose that the
:fair must have taken place upon the right
bank, and, consequently, in the waivodic of Plock ;
but that does not explain how Uminski, who, but
a short time ago, was still in front of the grand
army, should be found now in the North, upon the
Prussian frontier. Nevertheless, the thing is cre-
dible; for we are completely ignorant of the late
operations of the Polish army. It may even be
rossible that Uminski has been named Generalissi-
mo, as was talked of, and that he made from Mod-
i;n a sortie with the Polish troops. Then it would
be the corps of Kreuts which would be attacked,
and which has withdrawn in haste, with the ma-
gazines, upon the left bank, cutting off the bridge
and marching upon the grand army. This news
created a great sensation at Berlin.
CRACOW, Aug. 29.—Since this morning, a re-
port has circulated here, that the Russian Lieut.-
General Rosen had attacked, on the 21st of this
month, without success, the intrenchments of '
Praga. The attempt to turn the bridge, which
conducts from Praga toWarsaw, had not succeeded.
ft was added, that General Rosen had retreated to
Gazette d'Augsbourg.
SITUATION OP THE POLES.—We learn nothing
positive of the Poles. The governments of Prus-
s.ll and Austria, who probably know the state of
ttlngs, guard silence, and will not allow their
Gazettes to speak but when there is something
:znfavourable to the Poles. It appears evident,
that the Poles are not reduced to extremity ; and
mat they have recently had some success. But
'here? That is what we cannot unravel from the
izattered news which we receive in the journals of
Germany. According to some, it is upon the
Liver Vistula; according to others, on the Up-
per. Some say that it is the corps of the Ras-
Ilan army of Rudiger which is beaten; others
Irtake of Paske µ itach, others of Rosen. A letter
troni Limberg attributes to the Poles the bold
project of penetrating again into Volhynia, to raise
;he iul,abitants. It the Consul of France kept up
a correspondence with our government, we should
eras depend for news upon the Poles from the cen-
sored and suspicious Gazettes of Berlin and Vi-
.:111,1.

That which proves that the Government is badly
ttrved,is the fact, that the recital in the Moniteur
of the recent tumult at Warsaw, was drawn, ac-
'•eding to the avowal even of the Moniteur, from
'lettfrs of Vienna, Berlin, and Dresden, it would
"cote appear, that it received no direct information
tiant Warsaw ; and without doubt that recital was

aggerated, from the very circumstance of the
4ourcts from which the information was drawn.—
Le Tehtps.
VIENNA, SEPT. 2.—A letter states that War-
'"R "as nell provisioned, and had a plenty in its
IliLgaziott., for the support of the Polish army, for
t,vrral months, and could sustain a long seige.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SEPT. 14.
expre,s from Paris states, that the whole of the
:erch army will be withdrawn from Belgium.
Telegraphic despatches arrived to-day announce that
iianquUliiv her trot been disturbed at Narbonne since the
setts of the (h f.f September ; and that on the 9th calm
*as re•established at Perpignan, where there had also been
croub:es.--Alresmilicr*
speculator ou Change has just lost a wager of 30,000
''"'C4. Ile Mai betted that the Cholera would burst must
V.
.'bris before it did at Berlin. But be is determined not to
be baiten, and bra now 60,000 franca that it will be at
saw's before six rocs' tbs.--Corsaire.
It is said that the chateau of Rianbouillet will be restored
residence of Use Day of Algiers.—Ravointion.
4-in the sitting of to-day, the Chamber pronounced, by an
a/Inenee majority, the sending to the President of the

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 16.

Own o'Ciocz, Twa DAY.—Tbermometer, 63. Ba.
remnant, 30.20. Weather, fair and cloudy. Wind N.

1 - 1 At length we have negative Prussian intelli-
gence relative to the war in Poland. By the
Dutch mail, we have received Berlin papers of so
late a date as the 10th, but this last paper is en-
tirely silent about Poland. We call the intelli-
gence negative, because in an extract from the
Posen Gazette of the sth September, instead of
positive intelligence, we hare merely a denial of the
various statements made in the German and Ham•
burgh papers. The only operation which it condo-
scends to detail,relates the advance of the Poles upon
the bridge of Ssylno, which it reduces to insignifi-
cance. We are then told that RUDIGga has not
been defeated—that PASKEWITSCH has not re-
treated—and that SKRZYNECKI is not gone into
Lithuania ; but there is a total and very suspicious
suppression in regard to all that my have hap-
pened, for it is not to be supposed, that in the three
previous weeks, the several parties have been fast
asleep in their positions.

It is well known that KR EUTZ and the army
of TOLSTOI were advancing towards the Vistula,
and that the Russi .us had considerable depots at
Poltim ; but if the Poles were so terrible at the
bridge of Szylno, which is, by the course of the

river, above 120 miles from Warsaw, we get no
account of what occurred before they reached that
extreme position. Other accounts tell us, that
the Poles had defeated the reserves of Tourrol
—taken forty pieces of cannon—besides im-
mense quantities of ammunition, baggage, and the
military chest. As the circumstances justify the
latter—for we know that Pam EwiTscii was
waiting for these very reserves—and the Poles
could not have advanced to &yin() without passing
through them—so we consider this Posen article
as a flagrant act of concealment, and an artful and
impudent mystification.
Then, in regard to thedefeat of RITDIGER, there
is the same equivocation. The German pa-
pers merely mistook the scene of action, and
the name of the defeated Russian General ; for
it was not previously known that any considerable
Polish detachment had moved in that direction,'
and the rumours of a victory so eagerly caught at
by every man iu Europe whose heart is in the
right place, of course preceded the specific details.
This will be the apology of the German editors,
as it is that of those in London and Paris.
We are told that PASIEWITSCII has not re-
treated ; but it is evident, since no notice is
taken of his operations, or of their success, that
he has obtained none ; for the Russians are the
Gaseous of the North, and we see with what
pomp they never fail to set forth the smallest
affair of poste, when they can claim any advan-
tage. If, therefore, they have gained none in
the position in which they have been placed for
the last month, they must be considered as
baffled, and their ultimate retreat matter of
certainty.

We also insert to-day an interesting letter from I
Cracow, in which the cause of some recent mis-
takes in the journals of that city, relative to distant
operations, is very frankly explained. If, then,
those journals confounded RUDIO ER with KREUTZ,
&c. and SIERZYN ECKI with UMINBK I, in opera-
tions two hundred miles off, and on the other side'
of Warsaw, we may, neverthless, rely on them with
more confidence in regard to events on their own
side of Warsaw ; as at Zamosc, within 100 or 120
miles, and Lublin, at the same distance; and we are
gratified in being able to state, that they open the
most cheering views as to the discomfiture of the
Russians on the right bank of the Upper Vistula.l
They indeed assert, that the important city ofl
Lublin is actually in possession of the Poles—a
circumstance which indicates their superiority
th rough all that country.
We will finish this article by stating, that our
Paris letter, written on Wednesday, assures us,
that the Poles in that city are in the highest spirits
in regard to the issue of the campaign.
We also think it proper to state, that the gen-
tlemen who constitute the Polish Legation in
London, communicate this afternoon to us their
confident assurance of the frustration and final
overthrow of the Russians. They found this
conclusion on communications from Poles on
the Continent, who regard, as must all mili-
tary men, the position of PAS[/WITCH as
one which is contrary to all the rules of
military tactics, and therefore untenable ; while
they learn that the Poles are harraseing them on
every side. We need not wonder, therefore, at the
mystification of the Prussian Gazettes.

To turn from these remote though interesting
objects, to our own not less interesting national
affairs, we beg leave to suggest to the various
meetings of the people, which are either meditated,
or which ought forthwith to take place, their at-
tentive consideration of the following objects :
I. To petition his MAJESTY, that he will create
u many new Peers, as may leave no doubt of the
success of the Reform Bill, in the House of Lords.
2. To petition his MAJESTY, that he will be
pleased forthwith to dismiss from their abused
authority, all Lord Lieutenants of Counties, who
will not unequivocally pledge themselves to support
the Bill.

3. To petition his MAJESTY that he will forth-
with recognize the independence of Poland; and
take efficient measures for reinstating DONNA
M •RI A on the Throne of Portugal, and establish-
ing the Portuguese Constitution.
4. To petition the two Houses of Parliament to
repeal the Six Acts.
5. To petition the House of Commons forth-
with, to modify the duties on Newspapers ; and to
remove all obstructions on the free circulation of
political and other knowledge.
These are objects, in which we are persuaded
every intelligent man cordially participates; and
manly declarations of the wishes of the people
would strengthen the administration, and stimulate
their adoption, as part of the immediate policy of
the country.

The only novel feat--77• in the House of Lords
last night was a bill brought in by Lord Mel
bourne, to tolerate the setting of spring guns near
barns, &c.
__ __

In the House of Commons, Mr. Hume presented
a petition against those curses of the country--
the Select Vestries. It appeared by his statement
that £150,000 was levied in Mary-la• bonne
pariah by one of these juntas, and that he and the
inhabitants had resolved to submit to distraint,
rather than pay them.
A petition by Mr. Carpenter was presented by
the same gentleman, against one of the Six Acta,
under which he is at present imprisoned ; and it
appeared, that a majority of the present Ministry
had themselves opposed the passing of these acts.

Mr. O'Connell, Sir F. Burdett, Mr. Hunt, and
Mr. Warburton, concurred in supporting the
petition. The Attorney-General spoke with great
humanity on the subject, alleged that the
penalties bad been greatly modified, and that he
was no friend to the law as it now stood. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer made the most
liberal speech in regard to the press, which
ever proceeded from a man in office. He
asserted the principle that no restraint whatm•cr
ought to be imposed in discussing public measureA,
and the conduct of public men; and that the
form Bill alone had prevented his pro?osing ;Rite-
rations in the law.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer then m wed
for the further consideration of thn report on the
Reform Bill ; and after a prolonged convervi,m,
in which twenty or thirty members took part, the
report was received, and the Bill ordered to be vc.1,1
a third time on Monday.
Mr. Hunt then brought forward his motion for
repealing all laws which interfered with th,? free
importation of corn. He illustrated the subject by
a variety of forcible arguments, and unbniablo
facts, which commanded the attention of the House.
His motion was seconded by Mr. James, who was
very pointed in his strictureson the abuses of wea!th.
Mr. Benett then opposed the motion as ill-timed, su
intended to prejudice the Reform question. Mr.
Hume did not differ in opinion with Mr. Hunt on
this subject; but as he thought it could not bo
fully discussed at that time, he moved the pre-
vious question. Both sides of the House agreed
in this sentiment ; and on a division only six
divided with Mr. Hunt, and 194 against him.
The third reading of the Wine Duties' Biil, as
proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
took place, after some observations from the two
last gentlemen who filled that office.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 82 for
the Account, opened at the same price.
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Actu4l Debt, 2i per cent, 371 38 ; Voluntary
Loan, 82 82j ; Amon Synd. 44 58/ 591 ; Diu
ditto 31 481 491.