Star.
London, England, 1828-04-03 00:00:00

Brazilian
Caalonthian

In the House of Lords, la,t night, Lord MALSIES•
avitT moved for a copy of the instructions given to Mr. Jacoc, on
his second journey to the Continent. The Marquis of Lausnown,
in presenting a Petition in favour of the Catholic Claims, said he
was not prepared to 6: a day for the discussion of these Claims, bus
would take care that due notice was given. Lord HOLLAND pre-
muted several Petitions on the same subject. The " Offences against
the Person," and " Law of Evidence " Bills, were committed.

In the Commons, Mr. LITTLZTON gave notice of a
motion for diminishing the expenses of Private Bills. Mr. Dawson
obtained leave for a Bill to enable Barristers to act as Attornies in
Revenue cases. Mr. D. W. Hamm was opposed to the measure.
Attornies paid dear fur their rights, and ought to be supported in
them. Mr. Dawson said, the Bill was founded on she fact, that
Barristers could be must economically employed by Government

in such cases. In a Committee of the House Mr. Dawson proposed
Resolutions for reducing the Duty on Cards, which he said was at
present too high (it is 2s. 41d. per pack) to be-useful to the Revenue,
while it afforded a puwetful temptation to violations .f the law.—
)Jr. Dawson regretted the first tax he had to propose a repeal of
was not of more importance. The tax on Insurance was under
Consideration, and if it could be dispensed with be should be most
happy. The Resolutions for a license duty of 31. per annum to
vendors, and a stamp duty of Is. per pack, were then agreed to. The
Penryn Witnesses Indemnity 13111 was read a first time. Mr. Sauna
/Ilea introduced his Bill to amend the law of Testator and Executor.

This day dispatches sere received at the Foreign
and Colonial Offices from Lieut. General Sir /WIRT
CLINTON and from Sir FREDERICK LAMB, at Lisbon.
These dispatches are dated the 22d ult. up to which
period DoN MIGUEL bad done nothing to infringe the
Constitution; but the Constitutionalists were, notwith-
standing, in daily apprehension of their overthrow.—
All, however, continued quiet np to the 28d, when the
packet sailed.

172'e from Lisbon. v-PullriTbas been 50 anxiously

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ooked for, arrived this morning, and has brought Papers
o the 23d inst. At the departure of the packet, nothing
of a decisive nature had taken place-in that Capital•
Don Mom. continuerunder a temporary Oink, by
the firmness of conduct pursued by Sir F. Lewand
the presence of the English armament : still the Itintuage
used in all the Royal and Minisierial orders but too
plainly indicates that he is only watching for a it oppor-
tunity to throw off the mask entirely, and to usurp the

Kingly title.
In the meantime, the dissolved Chamber of Deputies
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is to be reconstructed in such a way as to guard against
a recurrence of the past, and to provide more effectually
for future accordance with the N ill of the Executive ;

and for the ordering of this good:work a Junta is ap-
pointed, of which the Bishop of Van; shall be Presi-
dent; consisting of certain individuuls who are named,
which is to report its proceedings to the PRINCL. The

Address to the Army, which appears in the Gazette,

speaks sufficiently for itself the soldiers are reminded
by the Minister at War' of their 4! noble resolUtionf

when, in 1823, Don MinuEL attempted to dethrone his

father ! and expressing the %WENT'S confidence in their
co-operation, should any fresh occasion arise for their
services.

The intelligence in the French Papers, received yes•
terday, is, for the most part, of an hostile complexion.

It is announced, but not officially, from Ftankfort,
that the first division of the Russian aunty, under the
command of Coun SAcKEN, had passed the Pritth ; and
accounts from Vienna mention a great movement hay

ing taken place in the military cantonments; and that
in the event of the reported march of the Russian army
being confirmed, an imposing Austrian force v►ould
proceed to the frontiers of Turkey, and enter the pro-
vince of Set via.

These papers state that the disposition of the SULTAN
to adopt a more specific course, had given way to feel-

ings of exasperation and revenge, on hearing that the
European Consuls in Egypt had demanded of the
PACHA the restoration of all the Greek slaves carried
off to Alexandria, and the immediate evacuation of the
Morea by his son IBRAHIM.

A Hamburgh Mail, with Papets to the .50th ult,
arrived this morning. These.papers and the private,
letters from Hamburgh report, that an express had
arrived in that City, with the information that the Rus-
sians had passed the Pruth on the 13th March. By this
conveyance, private letters have been received from
Frankfort to the 30th,alt. but they are silent on the
subject.—The following are extracts :