Star.
London, England, 1829-12-16 00:00:00

CORBETT'S LECTURES.

THE NEXT LECTURE will be Oven at the
THEATRE of the MECHANICS' INSTITUTION
(engaged for that purpose exclusively,) oa THUREDAY NEXT,
17th instant, at Eight o'Clock precisely. Admissim, One Shilling
for the Public in general, and Ten Shdliesp for Labottrersi
and, whether they be such or not, the door-keepen are to be the
judges. Officers will attend, so as to prevent all loarniptioa, such
as was attempted at the last Lecture.
Mr. CORBETT will start for Bitiaingham on the lllth, ar,d
reach that town on the 19th. As the Parliament will meet on
Tuesday, the 4th of February, be intends to be in London, and to
give his Fourth Lecture, at the Theatre of the Mechmics' Institu-
tion, on THURSDAY, the 6th of February.

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Thia morning at nine o'clock despatches were re-
ceived at the Foreign Office from the Honourable Sir
ROBERT GORDON, our Ambassador at Constantinople;
and from Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM, Commander-in-
Chief in the Mediterranean.

Despatches were at the same time received at the Co-
lonial Office from Sir FREDERICK ADAM, Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian Isles, dated the 3d instant
at Corfu, and brought hither by M. MA RCIIEST, an Ita-
lian Messenger.
Some details relative to Co RDOVA'S treason, of which
the leading points were given in our columns nearly 'a
week ago, will be found in another page. As in the case
of the mad enterprise of BARRADAS, we never doubted
the result of this isolated conspiracy.

In our remarks on the state of Parties in France
on Monday, we observed that neither M. de MAR
TIONAC or M. PASQUIER could calculate on the confi
dence of the Liberal Party. It is probably this feeling
on their own parts, which have induced these two States-
men to decline the overtures of Count de Cu A saw. and
Count ROT. M. HUMAN Nis also said to have refused
office. We are disposed to give every credit to these
reports of the Constitutionnel, and consider them as
quite confirmatory of whit we have already said, as to
the impossibility of forming any Ministry, whose colour—
to use a French phrase—shall not be decidedly liberal.
That the• visit to Compiegne, was not unconnected with
a political object, is pretty evident from the fact of there
being an attempt making to render the POLIGNAC Ad-
ministration palatable by the introduction of some new
members. It seems that the Chamber of Deputies does
not assemble before the early part of February. Thie
will afford more time to decide on the kind of Ministry
which would be most likely to calculate on a majority.
Whatever the decision of the KING may be, we shall be
greatly astonished if this majority is ever obtained by the
actual President of the Council.

It is now some weeks since we annonnced, on the au-
thority of private information on which we have always
placed great reliance, that so far from the Cabinets of
Saint Petersburgh or Vienna recognizing the usurper of
the Portuguese throne, negotiations were in progress for
hurling him from his ill-gotten and worse used power.
As might be expected, we were violently attacked
for the statement, by the partisans of MIGUEL. A
variety of subsequent occurrences only adds to our
former conviction ; and especially a letter from Vienna,
which repeats that neither the EMPEROR or Prince
Mzyrznx ten have changed their sentiments on this'
important question. It is further stated in the letter to
which we allude, that there is every probability of
DONNA MARIA'S early return to Europe ; whether
her Majesty will first land in England or the Continent,
is not stated.
While on the subject of Portugal, it may be as well to
mention that we have heard some strange reports relative
to the marked predilection 'hewn by our Consul ad interim
at Lisbon, towards the Usurper and Apostolical faction
generally. It cannot surely, be true, that a person sent
out purely for the purpose of watching over the interests
of commerce, should be apeing the Minister, and telling
every body he meets that England is on the eve
of recognizing Doa MlGUEL?—that the Portuguese
Patriots were fired at from the batteries of Ostend, and
similar stories ! If untrue, the organs of Ministers
will perhaps take the trouble of contradicting rumours so
injurious to our national character—so unbecoming in s
public servant. In every case, we can assert, Without
fear of contradiction, that the reports in question have
become matter of general notoriety in the Portuguese
capital.
We have received the files of the Gaceta de Colombia,
a weekly paper published at Bogota. They exhibit in,
interesting detail the progress and improvement in that fast
rising republic, of minimum, agriculture, revenue, estab-
lishments for public education, jurisprudesce, and the
administration of the laws. It is from the pages of this

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