Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1831-10-28

Important Foreign News.

lar files of London papers to the Sth of
September, and Liverpool to the 9th.
Among the intelligence furnished by
this arrival, is the passage of the Re-
form Bill in Committee, the resignation
of Skrzynecki, and the proclamation of
pembinski, who has succeeded in the
command of the Polish army. BY
paragraph in French paper, ii appears
that an instruction had broken out in
the Russian Military Colonies. Anun-
successful attempt at revolt in Lisbon is
detailed in Liverpool paper, which we
have given among our extracts.
England.--The Reform Bill passed
the Committee on the 9TH of September,
and was to be considered in the House
on the 18th, when the debate would a.
gain be renewed. A London paper of
the Sth, says :-"Various are the conec-
lures es to the length and difficulty of the
ordeal which it has yet to pass before it
can make its way in to the Upper House;
hut we think the hope of the corrup-
tionists will be disappointed in this res
pect, the principle having been already
discussed over and over, and the limit of
human patience having necessarily some
sort of reference to the shortness of human
life"
The coronation of William Nv. was
10 take place on the oth-nf September.
The Duchess of Kent has refused To at.
tend the ceremony.
Poland.--The reader is referred to the
parting address of the late commander
in-chief of the Polish army, and the
proclamation of his successor. In allud-
ing to the situation of Poland, the editor
of the Times remarks:
"The accounts from Warsaw by yes
terdays Hamburger mail, are full Of deep
and melancholy interest. Two orders
of the day were brought to us by the a
bove conveyance, signed respectively by
Generals Skrzynecki and Dembinski the
former on resigning. the latter on assum-
ing, the command of the patriot army of
Poland. Skrzynecki's address to the
troops is imbued in every line of it with
a spirit of generous and self-forgetting
devotion to his country's service, at the
same time that it requires from the SOL
'diers, in terms of affectionate solicitude,
that they will follow the example he
himself processes, while fighting in their
ranks, to set them Of implicit obedience
to the authority of theirnew commander,
and of unconquerable zeal and courage
IN the cause OF liberty. There is an ap-
parent calmness as well as modesty in all
the public documents that have been
published with Sllrzynecki's name,
" possesses an Understandable charm.
those of his own countrymen who I'M
feignedly admired that distinguished
chief that the constitution of his mind
was not fitted for occasions which de-
manded extraordinary and daring enter
prize"
The intelligence brought by the Han
nibal and Pacific, of revolutionary ex-
eesses at Warsaw. we regreat to say, is
now cofrmed. The Augsburgh Gazette
of the 9th Of August contains the follow
ing:
Yesterday courier brought the in
telligence that after the Poles had been
unable to maintain the position on the
Bzura, and had therefore, abandoned all
their entertainments at Blorris, and after
the proposal Of Skrzynecki to negotiate
with the Russians had been baflled by
the revolutionary party, and the Russi
ans had advanced within a mile, five
miles Of Warsaw, the Polish army ven
tured, on the Sth, to leave the city in or
der to give battle. Before all the troops
had taken their position, smart action
Ofcavalry took place, in which the whole
Of the Polish cavalry was defeated and
broken, and driven towards the city,
when popular tumult ensued-furious
bands of rioters traversed the streets
General Jankowski and Bukowski (who
had been acquitted of the charge of con-
spiracy brought against them) were drag
ged from their houses and hanged, and it
is said that about fifty persons lost their
lives. The government found itself com
PEELED to deprive Genearl Dembinski of
the chief command, which he was, how
ever, obliged to assume again, contrary
to his inclination, a few hours after
wards
Warsaw is now invested on all sides
within the distance Of 2 IL English
miles, and the news Of its capitulation is
expected.
WARSAW, Aug. 10,
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Head quarters of Bolinow.
Soldiers Called by the choice of
The nation and your confidence, to exer-