The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-02 00:00:00

to the uncertainty
of the present state of things,
and to obtain a Sovereign who may be agreeable to
the Great Powers—who may reconcle opposing in-
terests,—may afford Belgium a pledge of internal
security, and Europe a pledge of peace. The
Great Powers have as close an interest as Belgium
herself in the speedy appointment of a Sovereign,
for the precarious and uncertain state of affairs can-
not fail to produce, on the French frontier, an effect
very prejudicial to the maintenance of peace. The
question of Luxembourg is in this respect peculiarly
interesting, for it is easy to imagine the effects to
Europe of an armed occupancy of Luxembourg by
the troops of the confederation, or even of a renewal
of hostilities between Belgium and Holland. No-
thing can be more desirable, we repeat, for England
and France, than that the Belgian question should
be speedily settled, and that it should be arranged
on a footing that the country will accept, and tha
will ensure it a tranquil and firm continuance as a
nation for the future.

The Austrian Observer coNtains some particulars
respecting the late disturbances ut Parma, which,
however, are of no particular moment
:
VIENNA, MARCH 19.—Reports have been received
from General Baron Frimont, by which we learn that
Parma was occupied on the 13th by the Imperial troops.
The brigade of General Straboosky had moved from Pia-
cenza for this purpose, and the Commander-in-Chief had
ordered Colonel Baron d'Aspre to support the movements
of General Straboosky, by advancing from Modena by way
of Reggio. Baron d'Aspre executed this movement with
such promptness and decision, that he was already at the
gates of Pat ma at five o'clock in the morning of the 13th,
and the appearance of his brat patrol of Honiara having
thrown the cowardly revolutionary Government into the
greatest consternation, and caused the National Guard to
disband itself, the Colonel took possession of the city with-
out any resistance whatever, and the brigade of General
Straboosky arrived in the course of the day.
With respect to what took place in Parma, during the
few last days before the entrance of the Imperial troops,
we learn that already on the 9th the Provisional Government
in that city gave public notice that it had disolved itself. The
greatest alarm and confusion prevailed in the city, the
members of the dissolved rebel Government attempted to
take flight, but the two carriages in which they rode were
stopped by the populace and brought back to the Palace of
the Government, amidst cries of " Death to the traitors l"
" Death to the wretches who abandoned us in the moment
of danger !" At the same time some hundred young men
who thought themselves most implicated in consequence of
the part they had taken in the revolution, had precipitately
left the city, intending to take the road to Bologna. After
some parleying, the members of the Provisional Govern-
ment who were trembling for their lives, were released, on
promising to resume their functions, and messengers were
despatched after the young men to persuade them to return
to Parma ; they were already six Italian miles from the
'city, and were with much persuasion induced to come
back. On the 10th and 11th confusion and anarchy were
at the height ; the city gates were shut, but by no means
for the purpose of defending it, but merely to make it
more easy for the leaders of the revolution to collect all
the horses for their flight.