Star. — 1831-03-11 (London, England)

DIED.—Mr. W. Govan, well known m the judicious and able Editor of an Edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. Mr. SEYMOUR, on the second count of the indictment against him, has been acquitted at Salisbury. He had the benefit of a moat eloquent defence by Sergeant Wilde.  The compensation to the commissioners of bankrupts is, of course, only to be in proportion to the time they have held office, i. e. two hundred pounds above ten years, and one hundred and fifty pounds for less. Mr. P. M. ST EW ART has announced himself as candidate for Lancaster.  Mr. VAN HoMRICH, late M.P. for Drogheda, died soddenly in the news room of that town on Saturday last. No less than twenty-four of the disfranchised boroughs are in the patronage of the whig aristocracy. The housekeepers of London find it very difficult to realize the diminished duty on coals. It is wonderful that no public spirited dealer advertizes coals with the full abatement.  The shipping and colonial interests fraternize in a splendid dinner, on Saturday, for which the names of 112 stewards are appointed. The Coinage of William the Fourth will be completed in a few weeks. It embraces a range from the five pound gold piece, to the quarter farthing. New sovereigns will appear next week.  A sensible pamphleteer calls it political suicide to return to cash payments without a reduction of taxes to an amount equivalent to the rise of the value of money, as well as an immense reduction of the national expenditure. The pressure of Taxation, he observes, is now as high as during the most expensive period of the war ; and nothing enabled the likOrfr and manufacturer to bear the very heavy pressure of talotiton during She war, but a paper currency, and nothing 'rheeXpense otlifloWar, or the national debt, is the remote, and Peel's WI; 'is the pr oximate cause of the present public distress ; while the censequences have been not a little aggravated by the experiments in free trade, the repeal of the navigation laws, &c. The currency must be enlarged to the extent of our burthens, or the taxation must be reduced to the level of our currency. Perhaps we must wait for a reformed parliament to adopt one of these alternatives. The present men seem to be infatuated, and to have accelerated their own political destruction by passing Peel's Bill, and neglected to provide an alternative !  Shopkeepers who never can see beyond their counters at present, ascribe the stagnation of all business to the counterirritation about the Reform question. Sometimes they ascribe it to the weather—sometimes to " deadness of trade" —to people being out of town—in short to any thing rather than the true cause—Peel's Bill !  A Dublin philosopher announces that a small vial, filled with mercury, and held in the hand, cures acute rheumatism and rheumatic gout : and the same in the lower limbs, if tied to the soles of the feet on going to bed. He considers it also a specific for cramp. The City has established a day police, in costume like that of the suburbs, but under its own control, and therefore subject to no jealousy. A dinner has been given to the Poles in London, at which Sir Francis Burdett was announced as Chairman, but be preferred attending the debate in the Commons, though be did not speak as was expected. Mr. Hobbouse was in the Chair, and Count La Borde, from Paris, M. Behr, from Belgium, and the Marquis Wielopoleki, from Poland, were present, besides Mr. Hume, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Wilke, and other British Liberals. Some excellent toasts were drank, and some speeches made in aid of the Polish and Italian Patriots.  Messrs. SAMSOX and Co. were an old and highly respectable firm. The stoppage was only for £85,000, and they are prepared speedily to pay 10s. in the pound. Other recent commercial failures are of far greater magnitude. A contemporary, in his over-seal to outstrip time, us, and every body, brought forth, it seems, in a state of imperfection like Esop's blind puppies. Among other mistakes -he omitted Greenock, and a meeting of the Bailiff and Junta was the consequence,but the opportune arrival of the Errs a dispelled their alarm, and chagrin was converted, into rapturous public rejoicings.