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LONDON, MARCH 26.

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LONDON, MARCH 26. PRIVATE fetters from Warsaw dated the 14th inst. speak in high terms of confidence and hope of the ultimate success of the Polish cause. The Russians have as yet been unable to cross the Vistula at any point near Warsaw, and the river had risen so much from the breaking of the ice, that there was little chance of a passage for some time. Meanwhile General Diebitsch's army is suffering severely from a scarcity of provisions, the severity of the season, and the bad- ness of the roads. It is even imagined that he will soon be obliged to retreat to the Russian frontiers. Should this happen, his situation would be extremely danger- pp 11 ous, and the war may be protracted for several cam- paigns. Some of the Polish Commanders of corps have been extremely active and successful against the enemy. General Dwernickihas dispersed the division of General Kreutz. He left Warsaw with only four pieces of artillery, and he has now a park of 20 guns captured from the enemy. He had entered Volhynia with a body of troops, and been received by the peo- ple with open arms. The crossing Volhynia was con- sidered of great consequence to the Polish cause, as it was expected to lead to an insurrection in Lithuania. The Austrians have taken possession of Modena, but have officially announced that they will not enter Bo- logna, provided the insurgents of the Papal States do not press farther upon Rome. The Prussian State Gazette admits that General Diebitsch has been unable to reap any advantage aris- ing out of the battle of Praga and the IIarnburghRe- porter states, that the inhabitants of Potolio had risen and that the enthusiasm against the Russian dominion was becoming more ardent as well as more general. Dutch papers to the 12th, and Brussels to the 21st inst. report upon the increasing preparations for war upon either side of the frontier of Belgium. Those of the Dutch are upou a verylarge scale and their army which is said to amount to 107,000 men, is placed upon a footing to commence operations immediately. Prince Frederick has been appointed Commander in Chief, with an effective Staff. The Orangeists are said to be rising into importance even in Belgium. The Brussels Papers state, on what they call good authority, that the millitary occupation of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg is going to be carried into exe- cution, with the consent of France. They mention also that the Regent of Belgium having offered to enter intonegociationsto regulate the points between Hol- land and Belgium, King William replied, that he would, not treat with rebels and traitors,-that he would give Belgium fifteen days to make its submission, at the end of which time, if it did not submit, he would reduce! the country by force. The French papers are chiefly filled with comments on the policy of the new Ministry, against which se- veral proclaim undisguised warfare, in consequence of their having suppressed several societies; or at least, For having issued orders to their various functionaries to have nothing to do with them, and not to enrol them- selves as members on pain of dismissal. They say: that the government has coolly and deliberately come to a resolution of extinguishing the liberty of the press in France but they treat its menaces with contempt, and provoke it to a trial of strength in the most scornful tone of defiance. The Revolution newspaper, the numbers of which had been seized, and its further pub- lication prohibited, has putforth an advertisement, pro- testing against the act as unconstitutional and illegal, and proclaiming its determination to go on publishing in spite of the authorities. The Gazette de France talks of a Congress which is to take place in Paris for the settlement of the Polish, Italian, and Belgian questions. The following ships are now at anchor, ready and waiting for orders, at Spithead. We have little doubt their destina- tion is for the Scheldt:—Ariadne, 28; Sapphire, 28; Samarang, 28; Despatch, 18; Savage, 10; Nautilus, 10. The Pearl, from Cork, and the Warrior from the Nore, are also ordered to Portsmouth. His Majesty held a Levee on Wednesday at St. James's Palace, which was attended by Prince Leopold, the Foreign Ambassadors, the Cabinet Ministers, Great Officers of State, and a long list of Distinguished Personages.—In the evening the King gave a grand dinner to about eighty Members of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order on the occasion of Count Munster's .taking leave, after a residence in this country of about forty years. The Queen held her third Drawing Room on Thursday at St. James's Palace, which was attended by nearly all the Members of the Royal Family, the Foreign Ambassadors and their Ladies, the Archbishop of York, the Lord Chan- cellor, Cabinet Ministers, and the Great Officers of her Majesty'sHouseliold. The presentations were very numerous, and the Ladies'dresses brilliant in the extreme, all of British Manufacture. The Times says, His Majesty has shewn most unequivo- cally, and in refutation of the base slander which would cist upon his open nature theimputation of acowardly deser- tion of those who have been induced to undertake the grand Measure of reform by his recommendation and under his -auspices—his Majesty, we say, has shewn to the whole world "the sincerity of his profession, by forthwith thrusting two ^Mficers out of the Royal Household who had voted against the Bill—Mr. Horace Seymour and Captain Meynell. On Tuesday afternoon they were servants of the Crown—on Wednesday morning they were at liberty to go where they Ilk,ed." -In corroboration of this statement, the following appointments have since been gazetted:—C. Cavendish, Esq. m the room of H. Seymour, Esq. and T, Shiffner, Esq. in «f Capt. H. Meynell; Wm. Russell, Esq. in the room Sneyd, Esq. resigned. The Lord Chamberlain has also notified to Mr. Calvert, that, in consequence of his vote on the second reading of the Reform Bill, he is no longer connected with his Majesty's Household as Secretary to the Lord Chamberlain. The question of a Dissolution of Parliament (says the Times) can only be solved in a manner agreeable to the (public wish, and beneficial to the great State question. The King, we know, is ready to stamp the proposition of a Dissolution with his Royal fiat, on the instant that it is made to him by his responsible Advisers; and nothing has more excited his indig- nation and contempt, than the false insinuations, that he was capable of flinching on this point, that he was unstable and in- decisive. The King is altogether, with his people, a Reformer." The following amusing little anecdote is stated to have oc- curred within the hearing of several persons. The Chan- fiellor was presenting petition after petition to Ms Majesty •at the Drawing Room, on Thursday last, in favour of Reform. The duty became almost fatiguing. His Lordship had pre- sented more than 30 such Addresses, when "I am really ashamed," he was begining to say, "of being obliged to trouble your Majesty with so many petitions from this purse yneaning the huge Chancellor's bag, so called), but"—•" My ■Jjord Chancellor," interrupted the King, smiling, I will from your purse but the seals." The Lord Chancellor, who has made the most disinter- «nn i Use patronage—sacrificing, in the first instance, 0001. to persons who were almost strangers, and afterwards a appointing two Gentlemen to be Masters in Chancery who had no claims upon him but their professional service, has at length, on a third Mastership in Chancery having become vacant, given the office to his brother, a Barrister of better claims than half of those who are usually selected for this of.the Court. We will not waste a word in jus- tification, of such an appointment. It would have been most iV* 116 Lord Chancellor to have again passed over the rair pretentions of his relation, and cowardly in that relation to have refused the o&ce.-Timcs. A Reform Meeting of the Merchants and Bankers of Lon- don, was held at the Mansion House on Friday, and resolu- tions unanimously agreed to for addressing the King and both Houses expressing approbation of the Bill now before Par- liament. The Meeting consisted of the most wealthy and respectable individuals in the Metropolis, and at the conclu- sion three times three cheers were joyously given for the King. I The Hon G. Pryse Campbell, Capt. R. N. has been re- turned M. P. for the Shire of Nairn. The return of the Lord Advocate of Scotland (Mr. Jeffery) was this morning declared void by the Forfar Election Com- mittee. The Liverpool Election closed this morning, and the Com- mittee adjourned until four o'clock. They met again in the afternoon, and decided that Mr. Ewart, the Sitting Member, was not duly returned; that the election was void; and that gross bribery and treating prevailed. Sir James Scarlett has resigned his seat for Malton, and it is added, will be succeeded by a Member who will sup- port the Reform Measure. Sir Robert Peel, says the Globe, last night gave new symp- toms of abandoning his opposition to the principles of the Reform Bill, by becoming a suitor to the Ministers for the amendment of some of the particulars in which the prin- ciples are imperfectly applied, and especially in the case of the borough of Tamworth. The result of the Durham contest, in the return of Colonel Chaytor, has some amusing points about it, Mr. Trevor gave up his seat for New Romney, in the full reliance of being returned for Durham on the interest of Sir Roger Greslev, and is rejected by a majority of 19. Reform gains a vote by this event. A numerous Meeting was held on Thursday at the Man- sion House to take into consideration the dreadful distress in various parts of Ireland, arising from the failure of the po- tatoe crop—the Lord Mayor presiding, when resolutions were passed in conformity to the object of the requisition, the principal of which was that subscriptions be entered into for their immediate relief. A Committee was appointed for the management and distribution of the funds, and bankers named to receive subscriptions, the Duchess of Kent head- ing the list with a donation of 501. The total received before the Meeting separated amounted to nearly 9001. The census of 1831 will, it is feared, be made under cir- cumstances not at all favourable to its accuracy. The dread of the tax-gatherer was never stronger than at present, and ,I nothing has been found more difficult than to persuade the lower classes that an enumeration of the people was not con- nected with some plan of taxation. Add to this, that per- sons who have made false or defective returns for the mi- litia ballot, will not be apt to risk detection, by giving cor- rect returns for the census. Z5 THE THETis FIRGATE.—A Court Marshal was held on Tuesday the 15th, at Portsmouth, on board the Wellesley, on the officers and crew of his Majesty's ship Thetis, which was lost off Cape Frio, South America. The Court sat daily till Monday last, and closed at two o'clock to deliberate on the evidence produced,and on Captain Burgess's defence. At half-past five the Court was re-opened, when the sub- stance of the sentence read was as follows:—" Considering the state of the weather, too much dependence placed on the dead reckoning, and the soundings having been neglected, blame was attributed to Captain Burgess and Mr. Gowdy, the master; but, in consideration of their former services, the Court did adjudge Captain Burgess to lose one year's rank, and Mr. Gowdy to lose two years'rank. Theremainingi officers and the crew to be acquitted.The Court paid a high compliment to Mr. Geach, the boatswain, for his conduct in saving so many of the crew.

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