Star.
London, England, 1831-02-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE EXCLUSIVE.

PARIS, FEB. 26.—Sir, as I considered when I wrote
you last, the census of 240 francs, was combatted in the
discussion upon the electoral law yesterday, and reduced to
200 francs, which will give some thousands more electors.
The Chamber, I.owever, has shown itself far less liberal
than the Ministry, by rejecting the admission of the leas ned
professions to the privilege of becoming electors by right,
miless paying one half of the fixed census in direct taxes,—
namely, 100 francs. This proposition was made by M.
Jules de Larochecoucault, and after a very acrimonious
and sparring discussion, each privileged profession
was put separately, and, I am grieved to say, that
out of the whole, only two were adopted mem-
bers and correspondents of the Institute, and retired na-
val and military officers having a pension of 1,200 francs.
The illiberal mover has indelibly disgraced himself by thus
putting a tax upon intelligence. To tariff the genius of
such men as Cuvier, Chateaubriant, Monge, &c. at the sum
of 100 francs ! It can scarcely be believed, that in the year
1831, in that capitol of the civi!ized world, that a French
assembly should have required 100 francs worth of intelli-
gence, and 100 francs in imposts for to make an equal sum
to the tax•receiver who pay 20 francs. Such restrictions to
libcral professions, science, and letters, was not to have been
looked for. Ihe value put upon the blood shed in the de-
fence of the country by the old naval and military officers,
has also given great offence, and will tend to lessen
the almost mininum of popularity which the Chamber already
possesses. The law has now to be sent up for the approval
of the Chamber of Peers, and no doubt that the Chamber
will be immediately after dissolved. There is much talk that
Marshal Soult has sent in his resignation, and this morning
even, it MIA said, that it had been accepted ; but there is no
truth in either report, although there is every appearance of
a change in the Ministry, as the war party gains ground daily.
The news from Poland is very cheering—the troops, both col-
lectively and individually, shew a courage and daring unexam-
pled at any period of their history,it is the best answer they can
give to the sanguinary proclamations of Gen. Diebitsch, and
to the terrible decrees of his master. The fate of Poland
depends upon the first victories—for Lithuania and Same-
gitia, only wait a little assurance of safety, in order to
raise the standard of revolt—and from many private letters
which have escaped the vigilance of the Prussian Police, it
is stated that great discontent prevails in the Russian army;
that the Emperor Nicholas mounted the throne upon the
corpses of the most patriotic soldiers, and that since his
accession many officers of illustrious birth have been con-
secutively exiled to Siberia. All these tend to murmur-
ing and discontent. The state of things in Poland is strongly
opposed to this. There the soldiers and the nation are
all ardent from the justness of their cause, and flushed with
their first success. they look forward with a noble confidence
for the result ; besides, the Emperor has left them no other
alternative than to submit or die—and they prefer dying in
the defence of their country. From all parts is reported ex-
amples of this heroic resignation. When that fine regiment
the Helens of Kalish passed through Warsaw, on their way
to Praga, the people hailed them with " Long live the men of
Kalish," which they answered by shouting, " May the men of
Kalish die, that their country may live." No words could
he more simple or touching—such soldiers may fall without
I doubt, but surely a nation composed of such men, will not
disappear and perish !
The revolution marches well in Italy—and has taken now
i such a decided character that it will be in vain to check it.
I saw a private letter from Rome dated the I 1 th, which re-
presented that city as perfectly tranquil, and having very
few foreigners there excepting Russians and Americans.
1 J. L.

PREFECTURE or PoLicz.—Citizens of Paris—Depo-
sitary of your dear interests in the functions which have
been confided to me, I ought to make known to you my
sentiments and my wishes : a new man, I have never either
loved nor served the restoration. 1 undertook, in the inde-
pendence of the bar, to cherish liberty, and, in the austerity
of the magistracy, to respect the laws. I shall not be un-
faithful to these habits. My first cars will be to guarantee
to all their rights ; my only end, to maintain order
and public peace—precious objects, without which there
is neither liberty nor security. The law alone will
serve me for my guide ; I shall use with firmness its
execution against all those who may essay to violate it.
I shall be supported by all well-disposed men, by all true pa-
triots, convinced as I am, that the respect of property, the
maintenance of public repose can alone give to industry its
reward, to commerce its activity, to the nation its liberties,
and consolidate the glorious revolution which has rendered
the throne popular by placing there a citizen king.
Paris, F.b. 26, 1831. The Prefect of Police—VIVIEN.
wurzERLA N Do-.GEN EV A, FEB. 21.—A commercial
Letter from Genoa, dated the 17th, announces that there has
reigned for some days an extreme agitation in Tuscany ; that
the government had decided, to demand of the principal
proprietors, to organise a Town Guard, (garde urbaine) ; that
at Rome the authority had shewn the intention to display an
extreme severity against the partisans of the revolution. A
proclamation of the new Pope prohibited, under pain
'ef death, the carrying of colours and any rallying signs
trbatever, not authorised. A letter from Milan announces,
positively, the insurrection of Ponto-Corvo and of Bevevent,
two Roman boundaries included in the Neapolitan territory.
Every things tends to make us believe an approaching
movement in Piedmont. Commercial transactions between
Genoa and Switzerland are suspended. All communication
Lau ceased on the side of the Simplon. The report which
had circulated here of a rising at Chambery is not confirmed,
but we are assured that there has been recently sold at
Geneva a great quantity of powder and lead destined for
Savoy."
BELotust.—The Telegraph has brought the news of
the nomination of M. Surlet de Chokier to the Regency of
the Kingdom of Belgium. Thus the hope is realized which
we bad conceived, of seeing Belgium form an independent
state under the administration of one of the best of patriots,
a stranger to all parties, and who has acquired the esteem
of his fellow-citizens in the most difficult post."— Le
Temps.
Now-twesavzweiow.—ltaly causes 200,000 men to
march, in order to crush Italy. Russia prepares to over-
whelm Poland with all the weight of her hordes and savage
populations. Belgium humbly solicits the orders of the

French Cabinet. England threatens to make bankrupt:, ;,:i
those nations who refuse to submit to her policy Do,
.guel takes possession of all foreigners fouud in his stm.s._
Ferdinand makes prisoners all travellers accidentail%
with in Spain. The King of Sardinia would reduce t!
Savoyards to a state of mountain rats. And the Poise
damns the world !—Le Corsaire.

The Gazette d'Augsbourg has announced the match or
several corps of Austrians towards Italy; intervention op.
pears then resolved on ; the Austrians who are in Italy d
u
net dissemble their bad humour against France, to which
they attribute the movements which tend to the setting tie,;
country free. These, it is said, are the diplomatic conte:-
ences. Austria declares that she will not interfere in Ro_
magna, nor in Piedmont, if there should arise evf nts
the same nature in those countries ; but she ant. unc
that she will interfere in the affairs of loneu„
and Parma ; this she founds not only upon t 1...
point that these principalities are possessed by Au*.
trian Princes, bat again upon their reverting to Ati,t.i:t.
This motive has foundation for the State of :kludena,
but has none for Parma, which must revert to a Prim
of the House of Bourbon. The question is, then, t,)
know whether, if Austria follows up these resolution: ,
will not commence immediately ?—Le C'uurrier Francois.
Pot. AN D .—Warsaw, Feb. 15.—The Gazette de Worso,
rum ts that the corps of the army of Gen. Geismar has ke n
intercepted. The bad weather, it also adds, has caused ti...
Russians to retire behind the Bug. The fortifications of ti ..
capital are com;deted. The day before yesterday, a Conn
cil was convoked, composed of the chief inhabitants. It wa.
demanded of them whether, in case of need, and the plan e,
war required it, they would permit a part of the city to In
converted into fortified works. They unanimously replied—
.. We n• t only place at your disposal a part of the city and
of our property ; but should all the city be converted lute
ruins, and be reduced to ashes, our bodies shall serve as earn_
parts for our brothers ; all we ask is to wash out, in the blow
of our enemies, the injustice committed towards the ctontry.',

CITY, ONE O'CLOCY.

In the absence of information, the funds are very heal
and drooping.
Consols, which left off on Saturdry, at 7711, for the ;,r•
count, opened nt the same price ; siuce which they hay:-
receded to 77/ k.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols have been very feverish during the whole of th-
morning, and have receded since Saturday near one per cent.
At present they may be quoted at 77, with a very heavy
market.

The real cause of this decline is not as yet known ; but
the complection of affairs on the continent, particulaily t 1.%;
of Austria, going to infringe on the non-intervention ; arc
i: is imagined that France will not lay dormant.
It also appears that four more of our ships are going to lx
put into commission. We have also a report of unfavourable
•
news from Ireland.

Nothing doing as yet in the foreign market.
CITY, HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols have been done as low• as 761 for Account.

COURT CIRCL LAR.

The Duke, Duchess, and Prince George of Cumberland,
and the Duchess of Gloucester, visited their M ajesties rn
Saturday, at their Palace at St. James's, and partook a
a &beano at two o'clock.
The King and Queen accompanied by Prince George of
Cambridge, left the Palace with their suite in three carriages
and four about half-past four o'clock, for their Palace a.
Windsor. The Rev. Mr. Harvey, preceptor, and the Rev.
Mr. Wood, sub-preceptor to Prince George of Cambridge,
accompanied the Prince.
The Prince of Orange was present at the dinner party
given by the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland to their
Majesties on Friday. In the evening their Royal High-
nesses entertained the whole of the Foreign Ambassadors
and Ministers and their Ladies, the Cabinet Ministers and
their Ladies, and a very numerous party of the nobility and
gentry. The Band of the Royal Horse Gua-di attended in
an ante-room adjoining the state apartments, and perforn el
several pieces in the course of the evening, for the gratifica-
tion of the company.
Divine Service was performed yesterday before the Du-
chess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and their Royal High-
nesses' Household, in the King's Palace, at Kensington, by
the Dean of Chester.

The Duke, Duchess, and Prince George of Cumberlan.i.
and their Royal Highnesses' household, attended Divine
Service yesterday, in their apartments at the King's Palace,
St. James's.

The Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, and a select party.
dined with the Princess Augusta on Saturday evening, at her
residence in the King Palace, St. James's.
The Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the
Princess Sophia visited the Princess Augusta yesterday.
The Duke of Cumberland honoured Sir George Warrender
with his company to dinner on Saturday evening, at his resi-
dence in Albemarle-street. There was a select party to

meet his Royal Highness.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign Office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Grey, the Marquis of Lansdown, Lord Durham, Vis-
count Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston Viscount Gede-
rich, Viscount Althorp, the Earl of Carlisle, the Duke
of Richmond, the Right Hon. C. Grant, and Sir James
Graham. The Ministers remained in deliberation four hours.
Lord Holland, the only Member of the Cabinet absent, was
prevented from attending by indisposition.
During the time that the Council was sitting, Prince Tal-
leyrand, the French Ambassador, and Baron Bulow, the
Prussian Minister, arrived at the Foreign Office, for the
purpose of having an interview with Viscount Palmerston.
Their Excellencies, however, left before the conclusion of
the Council, without seeing the Noble Viscount.
The Spanish Minister had an interview with Viscount Pal-
merston yesterday, at the Foreign Office.
A deputation of the Agents of the West India Colonies,
among whom were Mt. Burge, the Agent for Jamaica ; Mr.
Mayer, the agent for Barbadoes ; Mr. Colquhoun, the agent
for Dominica, St. Christopher, and St. Vincent; and Mr.
Browne, the agent for Antigua, had a conference with Vis-
count Goderich on Saturday, at the Colonial Office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Honourable General Ponsonby, the Lieut.-
Governor of Malta.

Sir JOHN MALCOLM, K.C.B. late Governor of Bombay,
and suite, arrived at Falmouth, Friday, in H. M. steamer.
Meteor, from Bombay, via the Red Sea and Alexandria,
having left India on the sth Dec. Tbey left again on the
7th for Plymouth. Sir FRIDERICK HAW KET also arrived
from Malta.

Died at Bombay, in the early part of December, Sir
JssEs DEWAR, Chief Judge.
No subject since the famous discovery of the misappro-
priation of 50,0001. by the late Lord Melville hes excited
more general indignation than Sir James Graham's honest
exposure of the systematic misappropriation of millions ;
The public are curious to know what attachments and pro-
ceedings have followed the discovery, for the subject cannot
be allowed to end in mere exposure. Restitution is at least
expected, and for example sake some punishment ought to
follow such gross delinquencies.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

BE LG lUM.

The provisional Government and Congress are playing their part in
•seroking a crisis. By casting back the last protocol of due great powers
;11 their teeth they have thrown down the gauntlet, and, lest any chance
i accommodation remained, have now decided upon a Regency. which
to represent the Duke de Nemours till lie comes of age. On the Roth
,Ite question was put to the vote in the National Congress, and the re-
9olt was the election of M. Surlet de Chokier. The majority was
eery large. The whole number of voters was 157, of whom 108
voted fur 31. Chokitr.
PoLat:n.—Tire accounts from Warsaw reach to the 14th inst. The
lies•hins had entered Poland at several points along a line of frontiers
of 300 English miles. The Russians had advanced their posts nearly
halfway from the frontiers to Warsaw, though the head.quarters of
P./cruel Diebitsch arc said to be not yet far (root the Bug—at Biala, oa
the ditect road to the Polish capital. Lublin had been summoned and
preparations made for a siege. It seems that the insurrectionary or
partisan warfare has not been considerable, but the spirit of the troops
described as admirable.

FRANCE.—PubIie attention acems entirely occupied with the new
air of elections, which was to be agreed upon preparatory to the disso.
Trion of the Chamber of Deputies. An important modification of its
xotisions, as we presented them on Saturday, was inevitable from the
-tone of public opinion. The motion of General Sebastiani with respect
to Belgium, acquires additional importance from the new circumstances
isflich are constwitly arising upon the Continent.
The Courrirr Francais says—' Singular reports circulated to.day
in the Chamber. It was announced, as certain, that the Ministers were
no longer disposed to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies. The explana-
tion giv, n by 31. Laffitte, in answer to Al. Bourdeau, and the habitual
contradictions of the Minister, render such a change of purpose not im.
2:obalile, however absurd it may be.'

• La Tribune sapi—' It was reported this evening that M. Laffitte
ass to quit the council, and that Casimir Perrier was commissioned to
compose r. new ministry to give entire satisfaction to the centres.
Though we must be prepared for any thing, we find it difficult to be-
lteve this news.' ..t this moment scaffoldings are raised round the
church steeples to take down the crosses. While the Administration
rders r.ueli a measure, M. Lafayette declares against this destruction of
Inc emblem revered by the Christians, and protests against this violation
or the liberty of religious worship.

The Ccogrricr Francais says--" It is strange we should complain of
the arbitrary measures of M. de Montalivet to procure a plot. The
!barrier pretends that the restoration has set the example of all sorts
violence. All the world knows that the liberal party was engaged in
Onspiring against the restoration. For 15 years was legal order ever
tiolatt.d to obta:u information respecting the commite dirccteur and the
s:eieties of Carbonari ? Were the houses of Messrs. Lafitte, Lafayette,
6ic. ever forcibly entered to find arms against them ? And if such acts
had been committed, 'he Couriier and all the journals of that party
%%cid not have found anathemas enough to stigmatize the Government.
A day, however, will come, when men of all parties will join in one
opiLion against the young Minister who has taken upon himself the
fr.t revolutionary measure against persons that has been ordered since
tit: time of the empire."

Tr icrir.—lt will be seen that this Power is arming, but with what
0: jest is a mater of speculation. It is thought at Constantinople that
t'., :ornaments fitting out there arc directed against Greece, but previous
would rather lead us to believe that they are connected with
resizion of Russia, which is, of the two, an object of much greater
:1:Tonal:co to the Grand Seignior.

JAW. 10.—The armaments are continued with great activity, and,
however improbable the assertion may be, it is said they arc intended
to subdue tircece ; 20,000 regular troops are already in motion, which,
it is announced, march to Negropont, in order to pass thence to the
Mores. By the end of this month the fleet will be ready to put to sea;
..nd an expedition is preparing with all haste, which is reported to be
destined for Prevesa and l'atras. The Captain Pacha is hiring Euro-
pean ships to convey the troops and stores.
GOTTINGEN, FEB. 15.—There are still about 300 students who have
private lessons, and frequent the classical establishments and the li-
brary. In order to obtain the permission of the Academic Senate to re-
main in the city, each of them has been obliged to procure a certificate
twat a Professor, respecting his conduct, and also to prove that he took
:to part in the troubles which lately occurred here.

FRONTIERS or ITALY, FEB. Is.—We have no certain information
:especung the farther progress of events in Central Italy.—A letter from
Allan. of Feb. 11, says, " We live here in perfect tranquillity."--A
letter from Piacenza, of the lOth, says, " You doubtless know the news
from Modena and Bologna; here and at Parma all is quiet."—lt Is re-
ported that Austrian troop,' may be expected—The new Government
it Bologna, which thinks of incorporating Modena and Reggio with it,
calls itself Forkraxione Italia. It is said that blood has been shed at
Forli, and still more at Ancona.

In consequence of the alarming accounts from Italy, several Austrian
rouiments, under General Frimont, have received orders to be ready to
march at a moment's notice. The corps in Lombardy is to be reinforced
!Jaffee() men from Stitia. General Frimont will employ ;he troops
hint according to his own judgment, and, on the application of
tea KY. :al governments of Italy, send them wherever their 'service ap-
pisr, r.cessary for the maintenance of order. The conventions entered
tuts wi,a most of the Italian princes bind the Austrian government to send
:lain in certain a fixed contingent of troops, and to protect theft rights.--
Tee events in Modena, Bologna, and Ferrara, seem already to have te.
grind the execution of the conventions, and to have occasioned the
raurch of tour regiments under Lieutenant Field Marshal Prince Ben.
ch,ile, who, however, is said to have halted for the present, and to have
asked for further instructions. The Austrian government is said to be
temly resolved to restore tranquillity in Italy, and to maintain it by all
the means which it has at its command. The principle of non-interven-
ii"s in the affairs of other States, set up on the part of France, even if
P had rot been essentially violated by the conferences in London, in
ohieh Prince Talleyrand has taken put, cannot be binding on any
Power, after the Declarations made by the Courts of Berlin, Vi-
enna, and S:. Petersburgh, that they would never allow and
tec,gnis.: it. if circumstances should require them to act for
111: mainterance of the balance of power in Europe—to which tied&
rein the French Cabinet refrained from making any answer-0r give
•uch ground for complaint from any quarter, even should the measures
prepared against Modena be extended to other parts of Italy. This is
very likely to ',Aspen, as the insurrection commenced at Bologna is
em-adina. and threatens the temporal dominion of the Pope. It I
be r'
would unjust for the French Cabinet to complain of this, for it would
be very presumptuous to attempt to weaken, by any kind of dcnionstra.
:'en, the effect of conventions between the parties, and to fancy itself
.lee from the reproach of desiring to enforce the right of non.inter.
tuition orly in its own favour.
Prn. 16.—According to accounts given by travellers, which are in.
deed by no means to be implicitly relied on, two of the members of the
Provisional Gevernment of Modena, who are distrusted by others, have
bee's it.tudered. No Austrian troops had yet entered Modena, but the
Austrian garrison at Ferrara had been considerably reinforced. Those travellera hear nothing of the farther spreading of the insurrection, but
said that great consternation prevails at Rome.
The intehtion of Austria to interfere in putting down the revolution
hy arms, appears to be now placed beyond a doubt. A communication
to that effect is said to have been made by the Austrian Ambassador to
the French Ministers, and, what is a little singular, to have been re-
ceived without disapprobation by these functionaries, with the excep.
:ion of Soult, who not only dissented from his brethren of the Cabi.
net upon the measure, but threw up the seals of the Ministry of
War in disgust. The Ambassador is said to have confined his
master's intentions to his own possessions in the Peninsula; but
a letter from the " Italian frontiers." which will be found
amongst our extracts, and which seems to speak with some authority,
enlarges the project to all those parts of Italy where the " Italian Con.
tedcration, which is the name of the new revolutionary association, shall
he proclaimed, and proceeds to argue against any right which the
french might be supposed to have of interfering, taunting that Go-
ternment with having itself compromised the principle of non-inter-
vention in the part which it took Jointly with the great Powers, in the affair of Belgium. The whole article is a defiance of the French Government. Concurrently with, and of the same character
with ,his proceeding, is a note from the other Powers, which is said to
1144 been delivered to die French Government, calling upon it per-
eaßtorily to state what its foseign policy is likely to be. The sow:tins, tops, by these accounts, appear to be now as anxious for a contest as
They are represented hitherto to have been desirous of avoiding it. The
Austrian troops are moving in masses upon Italy. but no new revolu-
nonary movement had taken place. It seems, however, impossible
:hat the French people can be passive.
Putts, FEB. 23. A courier arrived yesterday afternoon from Home with despatches from the French Legation fol. the Government.
It is said that he has stated, that at the very moment of his departure had visited had
he le were fighting in the streets of Rome. His Holiness
several quarters of Rome, and frequently alighted ; he
%.115 rteeivi ri with extraordinary enthusiasm, and testimonies of the
most perfect attachment. In the quarters of the Tranaleverius and that
e the Monti, the people wanted to take the horses from the carriage of
ills Holiness, crying • Santo Padre nontemete de mills not siamopronti
;'er defend ma lasciate ci fare.' These troubles were excited by
trangers, who were with great difficulty saved from the fury of the
People, and there is no doubt of its being the result of sonic Buenas
papist plot. Ihe Papal troops, and the great majority of the populs.
':on, have behaved with equal
courage and fidelity. The Sovereign
Pontiff afterwards retired to the Castle of St. Angelo, where his Holi.
i,e,s may awuit without danger the end of the troubles.
Two proclamations have been published—one by Cardinal Ber.
'ettorlirmSiecretary of State, the other by Monsignore Capelette, Go-
we of Rome the first appealing to the civic of Rome to
weonn the fidelity and the efforts of the troops of rearldine ; the other
ordering mangers, who have not been settled for a year, to quit the
"Pits' in 24 hours.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
LISBON, Fzs• 12.
I will now give you the particulars,which I have collected
from very good authority, of an attempt at revolution on the
morning of Tuesday last, at day-light. It would appear
that the Police had been informed of a plan for a revolution
to break out previous to Don Miguel's return to Lisbon
from Salvaterra, where he now is on a hunting and shooting
excursion. The constitutionalists had not been idle to
bring it about, first by inducing the people not to accept of
the Government Paper, spreading the most alarming reports,
and endeavouring to seduce the troops in such a scandalous
and foolish manner, that last week ten shopkeepers in the
Rua dos Fanqueiros were taken in the act of bribing two
serjeants of the .sth regiment of infantry by those very same
serjeants, assisted by a patrol of police, which were in the
same street at the time. Another serjeant, who appears to
have accepted the bribe, and pretending fidelity to their
party, gave information regularly to the Police of their
plans and measures; a French transport being to sail from
the Tagus on the Tuesday, they judged it a favourable op-
portunity by which they ought to profit, and consequently
they prepared every thing for the explosion on that day nt
day-light ; but the serjeant acquainting the Police with it
at ten o'clock on Monday night, the Count of Barbaceua
gave secret orders to the commanding officers of the garrison
to hold their regiments in readiness, but without sheaving
any symptoms of alarm ; the troops were therefore under
arms in their barracks at two o'clock iu the morning, and at
a little before six a number of rockets were fired off in the
vicinity of every barrack ; they made no impression what
ever on the troops, who remained firm in their ranks, pre-
serving the strictest discipline and obedience to their officers.
Some of the persons were arrested by the Police in the act
of firing the rockets at the Castello, Ciunpo d'Ouricpte,
Belem, and Campo de Santa Clara. The troops, when
knowing the intention of those signals, vociferated death to
the traitors. The serjeant then went to the different regiments
with some of the Police to select the few that had taken the
bribes, and it is astonishing the small number of those un-
fortunate soldiers who were implicated ; it is beyond con-
ception the fidelity shen•u by the troops to the King. Au
order of the day, given by the Visconde de Souse], com-
manding during the illness of General Leite, expresses ill
very strong terms how steady and faithful they were. I
have not heard of any person of consequence having been
arrested. Public tranquillity was not fin• a moment disturbed,
and on the same day every one attended their usual occu-
pations, as if nothing hail happened. The King has issued
a decree, and I assure you it has had as wonderful effect on
fhe royalists, who scent to be greatly satisfied, and possessed
of greater courage and enthusiasm in consequence of it.
Any other attempt, after what has just taken place, on the
part of the liberals, must be as useless as this one has been,
and I think that no more revolutions will be attempted by
them in Portugal. If you were here to witness the joy and
enthusiasm of the people, I am certain you mould form the
like opinion.

Yours, B.

1-1,1 ILL IA Ai E.\ 'llll RI REFORM.

The city of Exeter, on Wednesday last, displayed a con-
firmation (if confirmation was wanted) that the sense of
people is in fa,-our of Parliamentary It ; and (which
in our opinion is mom important) that reform should com-
prise the vote by ballot. h was truly a meeting of the peo-
ple and included a large mass of the respectability and
intelligence of the city.
The Halifax petition for reform is signed by upwards of
6,000 of the inhabitants. Several other petitions of the
same kind have been sent to Parliammt from different
townships in the parish of Halifax.
A highly respectable meeting of the friends of reform was
held in the Sunday School-room of the Independent Chapel,
at rlland, Monday last, when a petition for an effectual
reform in the Commons' House of Parliament was unani-
mously agreed to. The petition has been signed by up-1
wards of 1,500 persons, and has been sent up, accompanied
by a protest against the statement of Sir .1. Johnstone, as
to the condition of the labouring poor.
A most respectable meeting to petition for a reform in
the representation, was held at Blackburn last week, John
Hargreaves. Esq. in the Chair. The liberal Vicar of that
town, the Rev. Dr. Whittaker, addressed the meeting in
favour of Reform, and moved the first resolution.

The petitions agreed to at the public meeting of the in-
habitants of Leeds, in favour of Parliamentary and econo-
mical Reform, were made tip, Monday. after having lain for
signatures seven days. The number of names most deci-
sively attests the general feeling of the Borough of Leas
in favour of Reform, being no less than 17,515; and if
the town bad been canvassed, nu doubt the number would.
have been still greath.. A large portion of the xt ealth anti
respectability of the town were included in the signatures
to these petitions.

The LOrd Advocate is.now employed in London on the
plan of Reform for Scotland. The general principle of the
measure was settled some time ago, but in what regards
that division of the island, we may readily imagine that
there is much in the details which mould be best arranged by
oral communication between the Miuisters and the first
officer of Scotland.

A petition to the House of Common!, has been prepared,
and is now obtaining signatures, in Keighley, praying for
annual Parliaments, universal suffrage, and vote by ballot,
together with a total abolition of the Corn Lai: s.

I.lle residcent electors of the borte,;ll of Minium have re-
solved to petition Parliament against any measure of reform,
which shall interfere with the existing state of the borough
fianchise in Great Britain !! ! The electors have been long
celebrated for their acuteness in making the most of their
privileges; and they are likely to suffer materially by ary
rude inroad on our " ienerable institutions."
REFORM PETITIONS.—It is calculated that between ten
and twelve thousand petitions for Parliamentary Reform
have been presented, many of them signed by ten, fifteen,
and twenty thousand persons, most of them adding their
addresses to their mune. The scene on Saturday at the
House of Commons was, perhaps, the most remarkable
that ever characterised the history of the right of petition-
ing. On Friday, as well as on Saturday morning, hackney
coaches, porters, and footmen were arriving with bundles of
petitions ; and the ante-rooms, the vote-office, &c. were
literally crammed with them : there was scarcely a spare
room, closet, or corner, near or about the lobby, that was
not occupied with bundles of reform petitions. When the
House assembled, the seats were so covered with bundles
of petitions that, in many instances the members found it
difficult to find sitting-room for themselves. It is the
fashion of the House, that the Speaker should call the
names of those who have signed the " Speaker's Paper,"
as having petitions to present; and he does so in regular
succession ; but on this occasion many members waited five
hours without their names having been called, while others
retired, after the exhaustion of so many hours, without
presenting the petitions with which they were intrusted.—
Those petitions, of course, still remain to be presented ; and
many others arrived as the House was about to adjourn.
The common council have at length exerted their right to ,
destroy the job of selling the Secondaries' Office, and bevel
re-elected that independent gentleman, Mr. James, without
purchase, intending hereafter that the office shall be held
wring pleasure.