Star. — 1828-04-25 (London, England)

PRIVATE COMIMPONDENCI.  The murder of the Professors of Coimbra, by their I own students, has been exceeded, and even rendered ten thousand times more barbarous. A•volunteer of that body called " Pedro IV." was seized by a party of the rebels who took refuge in Spain, thrown upon a bench, stripped naked. and then deliberately ripped open in the manner and form the butchers of the country do their pigs ; and his body was subsequently treated with every indignity. This is inhuman, but such are the dim:riot mutual hatred. Yet the Gazelle of L.isbcn, which is now interested for the support of the Absolutist faction, although it lays great stress on the monstrous conduct of the students, does nut deign.to mention this savage atrocity, nor the murder at Lamereo of the soldier, solely for cheering the acknowledges* King of Portugal; nor the assassination of the Major of the Fourth, on his way to Lisb.,n from Upper Beira. Tie murderers of the Professors are to be tried, and deservedly punisheJ. The following barbarity will serve al,o to illustrate' the spirit of the time. A mistier of the 7th Infantry, which regiment is now stationed at Beato A wool°, about one and a half mile to the eastward of the city, took a wire trap with three live rats into a worn, in which were seated the Chaplain, a Captain, and an Ensign of this regiment. '1 he Captain said that the Chaplain should give names to the captive vermin ; the soldier having been •rdered to withdraw, and the door being closed, the Chaplain, with some formality, bestowed on the rats the names of " Don Miguel, the old Queen, and the Conde de Rio Pardo, now War Minister." The three officers then commenced an attack with sharp p AnteJ knives on their prisoners. Jests, laughter, and shouts followed—" Now 1 have stuck the Queen twice, 1 have lamed Don Miguel—see the hole I made i i the skin of the old gray Count." This exhibition they continued until their victims ceased to palpitate; but the soldier, who knew those three men to be Corr stitutionalists. as they called themselves, watched and beard their observations ; he soon discovered the whole ; the three brutes .►ere wrested arid thrown into prison, to suffer all this severity of the law, while .the informer was rewarded with a Cadetship in another regiment; and, as it is necessary that each Cadet should have about 40i. pee annum, the Regent has undertaken to pay it for him. Report asserts that Telles Jordao, an officer much talked of last year for his adherence to Chaves, has been seen several times in different parts of Tras-os Monies. No doubt he is making preparations for the triumphal return of his partizans when Des Miguel shall be proclaimed.  Lord HAREWOOD presented a Petition from the Minister and Churchwardens of Woodhouse Ckapti, Leeds, against further concession to the Catholics. The Nlarquis of LA NSDOWN presented a Petition from two Parishes in the County of Derby, lot the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. The Earl of CARNARVON presented a Petition from Mr. Isaac Goldsmid, of Dulwich, in the County of Surrey, a Gentleman of the Jewish persuasion, complaining of the introduction of the words " on the faith of a Cbri,tian," into the Dclaration to be made by persons previously to their accepting office. If this form of Declaration were insisted on, it would place the Jews in a worse situation than they now were under the existing laws. As the law at present stood the Jews were relieved by the Annual Indemnity Bill. The l'etition stated, tha: iu the Act of Geo. I. Jews were expressly exempted from being obliged to take the oath of abjuration. The Lite Annuity Act Repeal Bill went through a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow.