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--$attu*r*g> to LONDON, FEB. 5. THE Russian army is at last iipqn the eve of a movement towards Poland, and Gen. Diebitsch, in placing himself at its head, has for the last time made known to the Poles the treatment which they are to expect at his hands. The General has issued two pro- clamations addressed to the Polish army and nation respectively; in which he reproaches the first for the part which they took in the Revolution, with the de- sertion of their colours, and reminds the latter of its ingratitude to the paternal Government of the best of Kings but to neither does he offer any terms but those of unconditional surrender, and the chances of the con- queror's clemency. He commands the people to deli- ver in their arms to depots hereafter to be appointed, to send deputations to the Commanders of the Russian troops as they approach, and to keep within their dwellings under pain of martial law but those whose ill fate it may be to be taken with arms in their hands, he holds out no alternative but instant execution. At the same time, however, the proclamations tender an oblivion of all that have passed, except to those whose hands have been already dyed with Russian blood they pledge the General to restrain his troops from committing any excesses upon the country, to pay for the necessary military supplies, and to observe good faith towards such of the inhabitants as might accept 9 the merciful terms which they offer, mixed up with a show of great rigour and severity. Concurrently with these denunciations on the part of the General, the Em- peror has not been inactive; he has seized upon the funds of the Bank of Warsaw, and has confiscated such property of the Polish rebels as was situated in Russia. The Polish camp is unfortunately represented as a prey to internal discord, arid it is said that Russian gold has been resorted to With success to create divisiou in their councils. General Chlopicki, the Dictator, has sent in his resignation, and it was first believed under suspicious circumstances; but later accounts have vin- dicated his honour, for it is now asserted that, so far from having been corrupted by Russian bribes, he turned with disgust from the offers made to him but, seeing that they were too acceptable to many of his countrymen, his honourable mind presented no other course than that of retiring from public life. There are other accounts which represent the Polish cause in as favourable a light as ever.—The Emperor has de- tained the deputation which waited upon him from Warsaw, as prisoners, at St. Petersburg and the chances of the pacific termination of the revolution are more hopeless than ever. The contents of the Belgian ancbFrench papers since our last are of considerable importance. The discus- sion on the election of a Sovereign for Belgium was opened on Friday with unusual solemnity by the Pre- sident, in a speech in which he reminded the Congress of the resonsibility of its position in the eyes of the world and of posterity. The candidates were then put into nomination by their respective partisans, and recommended to adoption by all the arguments which could attract a preference in their favour. By the previous regulations of the Assembly, the contest is nowriarrowed to a struggle between the Duke de Nemours, son of the JKing of France, and the Duke of Xieuchtenberg. The Prince of Orange's name is never mentioned, but he has a considerable party out of doors. During the discussion, a letter was read from General Sebastiani, the French Minister of War, to the French Envoy, stating that it was the unanimous opinion of the Council of the King, that the election of the Duke of Leuchtenberg to the throne of Belgium would be regarded as an act of hostility towards France, and desiring the Envoy to quit Brussels immediately if the Congress decided in the Duke's favour. To add to their dilemma the Five Great Powers at London have issued a Protocol upon the subject of the boundary; the articles of which state that the "limits of Holland shall comprise all the territories, districts, towns, and places which belonged to the cidevant Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the year 1700," and that" Belgian shall consist of all the territories which received the deno- roination of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Treaty of 1815, exceptthe Grand Duchy of Luxemberg, which, possessed under a different title by the Princes of the House of Nassau, forms part, and will continue to form part of the German Confederation."—The Congress, in consequence of this decision, suspended for a season their discussion upon the choice of a King, and drew up a spirited protest against the Protocol. The election, however, has since been resumed, but is not yet terminated. Of a domestic kind, the only facts which the French papers communicate, are, a resolution of the Chamber of Peers to take the Priests of the Jewish persuasion into the public pay, upon the same footing as all other religious professors in France and that the Chamber of Peers, after a long discussion, have finally decided that the Peers are not protected from arrest for debt even during the sitting of Parliament. Private letters from Bombay enter into details of Proceedings against certain Commanders in the service of the East India Company, charged with purchasing African negro boys for seamen. True bills are stated to have been found against at least one individual, on board whose ship the boys so purchased were dis- covered. It is stated that proposals have been, or are about to be, made to the British Government, to establish a steam navigation on the Euphrates, from Beer to Hillah, from Hillah by a canal to Bagdad, and thence F;JY the Persian Gulf to Bombay. By this channel let- ters would reach Bagdad in less than a month, and would greatly facilitate the communication betwixt wreat Britain and her Indian possessions. Letters from the Swan River settlement have been received to the 23d August, by the way of Madras ?ey have a flattering account of the colony, and men- ion that there is at length some prospect of a return to e farmer; that the gardens thrive much; and. that provisions are in plentiful supply. It is, however, re- askable, that letters received through Van Diemen's l*nd only two weeks previously, give a gloomy report °t the infant colony. It is stated in the New York Albion, that a large and respectable body of British subjects in New York have application to the Government of Upper Canada or a grant of land to found a city,—the city to be called in honour of the present Queen of England. 0n*ttmtiications have been received from the Govern- ment in reply. We regret to learn that the United States scientific expedition to the South Seas has entirely failed. The crew of the ship have mutinied and carried the vessel into St. Mary's, a little to the south of Conception, hav- Ing set their" knowing ones" (savans) ashore in Peru. IRELAND.—Mr. O'Connell intended to make a grand *jlsplay on his departure from London to attend his dirties in Parliament; and on Monday a procession of nearly 30,000 of the trades, all decorated with orange- 11 green, white, and yellow ribands and sashe s,"was formed to escort him to Kingstown. Shortly, however, before the period fixed on for his departure, a notice from the Crown Solicitors was served on him personally stat- ing that "joinders in demurrer in his cause and the other were thii day filed in the proper office; and jnat an application will be made, at the sitting of the ^°ort to-morrow, to set the same down to be argued, and to appoint a day for that purpose and that the traversers will bo required to appear personally to abide the judgment of the Court." The assembled multitudes were not aware of this and to prevent dan- gerous consequences from the disappointment, Mr. O'Connell adopted, for once, a prudent course. He entered his coach, accompanied by Steele, Maurence, and others, and proceeded on his way to Kingstown, where he addressed the people, and induced them to return home in the same orderly and peaceable manner they had hitherto conducted themselves. After their dispersion he went back privately to Dublin. On Sa- turday week Mr. O'Connell, with the other defendants filed pleas on demurrer to several counts of the indict- ment against them and pleaded not guilty to the remain- der. Mr. O'Connell, it appears, has not yet stepped forward to exonerate the proprietors of the Freeman's Journal and Morning Register- from publishing his letter to his constituents. Upwards of 200 Members of the Irish Bar have signed a declaration, that they are decidedly of opinion that a repeal of the Union -c tT would not only be injurious te the welfare and pros- y perity of the British Empire at large, hut would also be destructive of the best interests of Ireland in par- ticular, and that the agitation of the question at this time must be attended with the most mischievous con- sequences." '< Two remittances, each consisting of fifty thousand sovereigns, were sent from Liverpool by the steam- packets, at the beginning of last week, to enable the bankers of Ireland to meet the run upon them. Their Majesties have appointed to be in town the 21st inst. His Majesty's birth-day is to be celebrated on the 28th of May. The good effects of the approaching Drawing Rooms are already sensibly felt at the West end of-the Town. The merchandes des modes are in full activity. The first takes place on the 24th inst. and being in celebra- tion of her Majesty's birth-day, the Knights of the se- veral Orders are to appear in their collars. On Tuesday their Majesties honoured Lord Chi- chester with a visit at his seat, Stanmer Park, and partook of a splendid dejeuner a la fourchette. On ] their Majesties' arrival at the Park-gate, they were met by a number of country gentlemen and Lord Chi- chester's tenants, all wearing silk hat bands, and carry- ing blue wands, and conducted to the mansion. On their Majesties' departure they were escorted to the gate, by the same party. Their Majesties and suite visited the Duke of De- vonshire on Thursday at his Grace's Marine residence, Kemp Town, and partook of a splendid luncheon. A grand juvenile ball took place at the Pavilion last evening, which was attended by about 300 scions of Noble Stocks. Much. has been said relative to the late visit of the Duke of Wellington at Brighton. The following will, however, set at rest all speculation as to the-political nature of the Duke's journey :-His Majesty invited a military party to meet his Grace at dinner; after the removal of the cloth, his Majesty, having filled up a bumper said, The King of England knows nothing of politics, except when in his closet; he now gives the health of the Great Captain of the Age,' his Grace the Duke of Wellington." This judicious remark an- swered a double purpose it operated to convince the Duke that his Majesty's confidence in the present Mi- nistry was impregnable and it also served to convince Earl Grey and his colleagues, that the the Royal trust reposed in them had not "moulted one feather."— Brighton Guardian. Lord Duncannon has been appointed Chief Commis- sioner of Woods and Forests, in the room of Mr. Agar Ellis, resigned on account of indisposition. The Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk has received a letter from the Lord Chancellor, intimating, his appro- bation of the proposed removal of the Lent Assizes from Thetford to Norwich, a measure long desired by the county. Drs. Southey and Macmichael have been appointed by the Lord Chancellor, Special Commissioners to visit and inspect the state of the Lunatics under the care of the Great Seal. The surgeons ofhis Majesty's navy have received an official circular from the Admiralty, requiring them to state the length of their services as assistants and as surgeons, both afloat and ashore, distinguishing the different periods and employments, that the Admiralty may be correctly informed as to the amount of their actual services. They are also to state their age, if fit for active service, and, whether desirous of employment or not; and to be particular in communicating to the Admiralty whether or not they are in private practice on shore. Prebendary Dennis, of Exeter, has addressed a monitory letter to Earl Grey, on the subject of reform, in which he "submits that the exclusion of Clergymen from the Commons House is equally unjust and un- constitutional," and prefers a claim for Ecclesiastical Emancipation. If," he says, Sectaries and Papists —if Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics, become ad- missible to the House of Commons, unless the Clergy of the Established Church be admitted also, the Christian religion cannot long remain part and parcel of the law of the land." When Ministers before Christmas proposed that Parliament should adjourn over the holidays until February, they were reproached by the Opposition for adjourning so long, when there was business of great importance necessary to be brought before both Houses with all possible dispatch. On Thursday, when Par- liament re-assembled, and Ministers gave notice of motions of the highest consideration for March, they were charged by the same party with precipitancy, though they had five weeks during the recess, to digest and mature their plans. So much for the consistency of the Ex-Ministers and their friends. Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart., M.P. for Newcastle-upon- Tyne, has addressed a letter to his constituents, in- forming them that he understands the plan of Reform to be submitted to Parliament will grant an extension of the right of voting to householders generally: and jit. being his intention to support such an extension, as it will materially affect their privileges as electors, lie .announces to them that if he should find, in advocating 9 'the measure, he is acting at variance with the opinions :of a majority of his constituents, he will take the ear- liest opportunity of enabling them to elect some other representative, whose opinions may be more in unison with their's.—Carlisle Patriot. We understand the whole of the Militia regiments will be called out in England, and that, after a month's training, it will be determined whether they shall be permanently kept up. In all probability this will be the case, as fourteen regiments have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Ireland. On Wednesday a numerous and respectable meeting took place at the City of London Tavern, of the mer- chants and bankers of London, Sir R. Glyn in the chair; at which it was resolved to present petitions to both Houses of Parliament, to adopt some measures of temperate reform, with a view to preserve and im- prove our existing institutions and also to implore the aid of Parliament in assisting the Government in their expressed intentions of effecting a retrenchment in the public expenditure." Earl Spencer was re- quested to present the petition to the Lords, and Al- derman Thompson to the Commons. Early on Sunday morning, the 30th ult. a fire broke out at Elvaston Hall, Derbyshire, the seat of the Earl of Harrington. Fortunately it was soon extinguished, and the danger is confined to the destruction of the in- terior of the housekeeper's apartment and some of its contents. The origin is considered to be accidental. The Chester Chronicle of Friday says—" We rejoice, to say that if the incendiary fires have not entirely t disappeared throughout the county, the number has I happily very considerably diminished during the last ten days. With the exception of a fire near Shifihal on Thursday night last, which consumed a large stack of clover, no other, that we have heard of, has occurred in this district." The Norwich Mercury says—" The spirit of incen- diarism seems to have taken its flight from this part of the country, We hope never to return. We have heard of no further destruction of property by conflagration in this neighbourhood, but on the contrary, every thing wears the semblance of quietude." I THE PEASANTRY.—Great good has been effected in Sussex, by the formation of "Labourers' Friend Societies." These Societies are founded on the consideration, that as there is a surplus of labour in the country, which its low price sufficiently proves, the most, effectual relief for it would be to enable the peasant to work for himself, or, in other words, to assign him land, at a fair rate, to cultivate with his own hands. It has been proved, by repeated experiments, that one acre of land cultivated half in potatoes and in I corii, will enable the labourer, with the usual wages he receives from the farmer, to support his family with comfort, without the degrading necessity of applying for parochial relief. The members of the societies already formed, propose in the outset to apply themselves to the obtaining correct informa- tion of the situation of the agricultural labourers in various parts of the country, and they will promote by all possible means, wherever it may be deemed eligible, the allotment of land and the building of cottages for them; and other objects relative to the moral condition of the peasantry, are also in- cluded in the plans of the Societies. BOW-STREET.—On Saturday night Mr. Guest, the Member for Honiton, accompanied by Mr. Lester (the Member for Poole), came before Mr. Minshull, to com- plain of his having been assaulted at Drury-lane Theatre by Ledbitter, an officer belonging to this establishment, who came forward to meet the charge.—It appeared that Mr. Guest, Mr. Lester, and some ladies, went to Drury-lane Theatre that evening, and the former gentleman, haying put his friends into a box, left the house and returned again in a few minutes, intending to join his party. On present- ing the cheque, which he understood would re-admit him, the cheque-taker said he knew nothing of it, and refused rather abruptly to give Mr. Guest any further explanation, than that the cheque did notbelongto" his side of the house." Mr. Guest, not understanding this distinction, desired the cheque-taker to send for one of the proprietors, or some of the officers attached to the theatre, in order to ascertain whether or not the cheque was genuine. The cheque taker, however, refused to give himself any trouble in the matter, and Mr. Guest, under the irritation of a moment, admitted that he had applied the term 11 infamous scoundrel" to the cheque- taker, upon which Ledbitter was sent for, who civilly de- sired Mr. Guest to quit the house, unless he conducted him- self with more decorum, and ultimately took him by the collar, and rudely, as Mr. Guest and his friend asserted, pushed him down stairs and turned him into the street. In answer to the charge, Lidbitter said he was called from the pit to quell a disturbance at the cheque-taker's door, and, on proceeding to the spot, he found Mr. Guest in a very great passion, abusing the cheque-taker, and calling him "an in- fernal scoundrel" and "a villain." Snch expressions used within the walls of a theatre being likely to create a distur- bance, he (Ledbitter) civilly requested the gentleman to re- tire, and it was not until he repeated the violence that he told him he must leave the house, and, ultimately, he was obliged to show him the way to the street. The cheque- taker having been sworn, corroborated the statement of the officer with respect to the language attributed to Mr. Guest.-That gentleman, however, positively denied that he used the term" villain," although he certainly called the cheque-taker an infamous," but not an infernal" scoun- Lis, drel. —Mr. Minshull really could see but little difference be- tween the terms, either of which was sufficient to raise the anger of any man, however humble might be his station.- After a good deal of argument, in which Mr. Guest and Mr. Lester maintained that the officer had committed a gross and unwarrantable assault, while the latter as warmly eon- tended, that as a peace officer, he was fully justified in what he had done. Mr. Minshull said, that it appeared to him, as the matter had originated in mistake, the gentlemen would do well to return to the theatre and enjoy the entertain- ments, as the affair, after all, was scarcely worth their notice. —Mr. Guest felt himself too much aggrieved and insulted to return to the theatre and addressing Mr. Minshull, he said I wish, Sir, to put the matter to a speedy issue. I feel that I have been grossly assaulted by your officer, and I call upon yon as a Magistrate to hold him to bail, as it is my determi- nation to indict him at the Sessions; lxot so much on my own account, as that I feel the liberty of the subject has been violated in my person.—Mr Minshull:—Under all circum- stances, I should not call upon Ledbitter to find sureties but if Mr. Guest declared his intention to indict at the Ses- sions, he would call upon the officer to give his own bail, to appear when called upon.—Mr. Guest by no means satisfied with this decision, expressed his determination to indict the officer at the Sessions. THE DECCAN PRIZE MoNEY.—A banquet was o-iven. a short time ago by a certain Noble Duke, to which was in- vited, amongst the rest, an old officer, who was a larO'e claim- ant for some portion of the Deccan Prize Money. b On the removal of the cloth, and after the glass had been pretty freely circulated, solving enigmas became the order of the evening. When it came to the Noble host's turn to pro- pose one, he brought out" the following :—" What is that which did not come last year-has not come this year-and will not come next year ?" The guests were all posed not one could untie the Duke's gordian knot, until the old officer (before alluded to), rising from his chair, and furiously striking the table with his clenched fists, until "glasses and decanters chattered again," vociferously bawled out in the ear of his host, "Tis the Deccan Prize Money, by G_d The Duke" looked unutterable things," and enigma-solving was dropped for the remainder of the evening. It is whis- pered that Parliamentary Reform" was the solution in- tended to be given by the proposer of the enigma. The old officer, however, appears to have been nearer the mark. BOLOGNA SAUSAGES.—All the world are aware that these sausages are esteemed the nicest, if not the most deli- cate food that can be eaten, yet they are made with ass's flesh. Xenophon, in his" Anabasis," remarks, that the flesh of the wild ass was esteemed a delicacy by the army; and in the "History of Belisarius's Wars," we find mention of sausages made from the flesh of mules that had died of the plague.—Scientific Gazette.

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