POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.
SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK. BUSINESS OF ma Housa.-The long string of amendments on the Reform Bill has been wofully shortened by discomfiture and retreat. The thirty have now shrunken to five. to-day will strike off one. IENT's Anti-Lord amendment will hardly provoke half tut hour's discus.. sion. Mr. iIrmst.Es's Triennial 'Parliaments clause must, if seriously pressed, be the subject of a separate bill. Mr. HuonEs Hunnsm's Per- manent Polling-place clause is a fitter subject for county and borough subscription than for Parliamentary interference. There remains only Lord G. SOMERSET'S motion for another district of boroughs in Wales; in connexion with which-for it makes part of the same subject-may be mentioned a motion of Mr. C. FERGUSSON to retain the number of mem- bers in the Scotch counties undiminished ; and one of Mr. STEWART 3Ltexasztv. for giving two members each to Aberdeen, Ayr, Perth, Argyle, and Lanark, and continuing a member to the Anstruther burghs. All these proposed amendments go equally to destroy the balance of the Bill ; and if one of them be carried, its whole structure must be remodified. If Wales and Scotland receive additional members, so must Ireland, so must England. Every schedule must be reopened and altered. Sir IVILLIAM RAE intends to move that the valued rent of Scotland shall be the rule by which qualifications in shires shall be ascer- tained. The valued rent, we must acquaint our English readers, is the estimated rental of Scotland, in some cases two hundred, in some cases one hundred and fifty years ago ; and has respect to land, and nothing but land. So absurd a proposal will not require much argument to dis- pose of it. Sir Vi7niaam Rates antiquarian standard has not even the virtue of being generally practicable, to say nothing of its general ivap- plicability. There are numerous cases in Scotland of lands that never were valued, or whose valuation has leng been lost. CAPE WINES.-The advocates of mixtures have succeeded in respect to these wines ; no change of duty will take place until. 1834. It is some compensation for the want of gin to our beer, to have vinegar to our sherry.
GAME Burea-This Bill has passed the Commons unamended. Will the Lords pass it ? It appears from the last intelligence from the Levant, a quarter of the world that our attention has been turned away from for many months, that JOHN CAPOD'IsTRIAs has for some time past been playing the same
game by the Greeks that his master NICHOLAS has been playing by the Poles. He would give them a constitution in form, but he "denies it in spirit and in truth. The Uydriotes have at length risen against his tyranny; his troops have departed front him ; dissatisfaction is univer- sal. This struggle will surely be a brief one, fur the Greeks have power and their oppressor has none.
The German Papers, which arrived this forenoon, bring the Rus- sian account of Polish matters down to the 13th of August. At that date, the Poles had 59,000 men between the rivers Rawka and Blouce; their rear rested on Warsaw. The main body of the Russians, under PASKEWITSCH, were concentrated at Lowicz. Their numbers did not ex. ceed that of the Poles, bat the account says their discipline and courage were much greater. Of course. On the 20th, according to the Berlin papers, the Russian head-quarters were at Nadurzin. RUDIGER. was then rapidly advancing on Pihiza.
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