Star.
London, England, 1830-09-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

Czaoxini.E.—Though little is known of what is now going ou iT
Spain, we are assured, on the best authority, that things arc it
an excellent train. A Committee of distinguished Spaniards, whost.:
minus arc known to us, are rccug•iized as a Provisional Govern
ment by all the Spanish Commanders now operating in the Con-
stitutional cause in Spain, with the exception of one. The Pro-
visional Government are in possession of both funds end credit
—a must material matter In the commencerneht of all nevi,.
lutions.—and the commanders obey their orders. As a proof of rh,
progress which has been mede, we know that one commander has under
Ids milers 1,200 men, all olti solders, SOO of Thorn came to hint fully
arnica. accoutred, and clothed. Count Abisbal, more distinguished
his talents and energy than his Imiesty, has been anxious to °butr
employment in Constitutional bands, and has even offered himself as
private, to have an opportunity of wiping off, by meritorious conduct
his fcrincr misdeeds.

That:F.—Some further ecninamicauons from Perpignan will be rest,
with interest by the friends of Spain. It:is obvious enough that tiv
exile'd patriots could utter have been justified, on any principle of cool.
mon sense or of regard for their country's welfare, in attempting t..
return bmae as avowed enemies of Ferdinand, had they not been eats.
fled of meeting a pov:erful sytnpathy from the great bolt of the Spanish
nation. Not behy em the spot, we must trust to others for c% hienee ot
runny of the most importut facts connected with the state of the P. -
niasula ; and the assurance now given by our correspondent as t.,
the nature of the sentiment which pervades the Catalonian peasantry,
accords with what has :cachet! us from various quarters, when to
temper of the In:dd.:iv and lower orders of the Spanish people is db.
cussed. It is asserted that Carlos el'Espans has shut himself up in the
fortifiul city of Barcelona, and the adjaceet fort Mentjutch,o
statement which, if true, goes tar to settle all Gispute respecting
the popular feeling throughout that rich, industrious, active, and
flourishing province. Colonel Miranda, en exp;rienced offices,
has been appointed to command the Constitutionals on the
eastern frontier, and to co-operate with the other chiefs in the high and
we.stem Pyrenees—the whole, both on the frontier and in the intend
of Spain, being undet the orders of Den. Torijus. The circueustane.
of accessions to the patriot force being daily derived from within the
Spanish frontier, is one which shows a perfect confidence ou the pat et
these volunteers in the success of tho undertaking, since men metier to
compulsion er necessity would hardly leave their homes and fatnili.:s I.t.
such an expedition, without being morally centaur of soon revisit.:
them in security and at ease.

TCLE.—Of one thing there .an be no doubt, and that it, that
if the King of the Netherlands have gained possebsicn of Brussels, Ass
days of hard fighting and much slaughter, his sovereignty is not worth
many years, perhaps many months' Furcbase. The middle classes,
though naturally anxious to preserve dials property, and anxioav to
put a stop to a state of things from which they must be great suf.
terers, share, nevertheless the hatred of the Dutch Government con:-
mon throughout Belgium. The Belgian Members of the States-Gene.
cal always voted against the Dutch, seal the opposition to the Govern.
meta, which has at last displayed itself In open resistance, was
env-imaged by the influential classes. It is contrary. therefore, to
evgy principle of our nature to suppose that a people like the Bel.
glans, known to be brave and resolute, and who have shown ea
numberless occations that they are obstinate combatants, will be rent.
dered submissive by the forcible meats to which recourse has been had
ageinsr them. We may rest assured that all will not be over with
occupation of Brussels, even foilcwed by the occupation of the oche.
towt:s. The foundations have l'eca laid for jealousies and hatreds
which raust end, and that ere long, in the overthrow of the ("Astir,.
Government.

Msg.—Bad the armed citizens of Brussels been satisfied with
I first success against ;he Government—hat they taken the concessions of
I the King as the earnest of future indulgence, end returned to order with
•he undiminished reputation of their power—they would have saved 4111
the calamities which they have now brought on the nation, and be''
been considered both at home and abroad as the invincible champions
liberty. They had indeed obtained a signal victory—they had treated ta
almost indeper.dent terms with their bovenign—they had brared their
gates against his troops, without incurring the penalties of treason, a:A
had seen the white plume of his Royal son waving in their ranks bebi:-.0.
the anti.nadonal banners which they assumed in despite of his coninif.ed
Had they desisted, therefore, upon obtaining their first demands, the}
would for ever have secured respect tor their rights and privileges. D
demanding a separation of the two divisions of the kingdom, and by
thus challenging the Government to a trial of military strength
doubtful and dangerous a ground, they hate encountered defeat, an 2
ruined one of the finest causes that e►er existed:

POST.—The Revolutionary ➢linistry and the Democratic Clubs of
France have been waging a fierce war against each other ever since ti.t
happy moment of national regeneration; and this war, the result 01
which, indeed, no nian in his senses could ever have doubted, is about.
as it now appears, to terminate forthwith in the dispersion of the Minis.
try, and the complete and absolute triumph of the Clubs. Thus it i.
that Revolution advances in its career. The force assailing the Minh.
try front witlicut has, however, obtained an earlier victory than would
otherwise have been its lot, in consequence of tl7e fatal 'lisacnaions which
arose in the interior of the Administration itself. And the cause and

circumstances of' these dissentions are such as exemplify, in a manna
the most curious and edifying, the consistency, cffic.xy, and vir:uc of
Revolutionary Governments.

Prince Talleyrand, Ambassador from the King cl ti.•
French, visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday afternoon tin
Foreign Office, and had $ long conference with his Lordship. lama •
diately on leaving the Noble Earl. his Excellency proeeethl to the it.
sidence of the Duke of Wellington, at the Treasury, and had at inter-
view with his Grace.

The Prince and Princes of Caroluth have rea.rned to
town from Windsor•
Ma. OWEN.—In the present agitated stato of the tvor.-
, ing classes throughout Europe, Mr. OWEN is must anxious that tbi
populace of England should have a right direction given to ireir feel-
ings, and that they should acquire an accurate knowledge of their
own situation, of what they ought to ask for their permanent bene-
fit, and how to ask for it. Al ith this intention he yesterd..y won
to the meeting on Kennington Common, to explain his views :...341
to propose resolutions similar to the following, which were jawed
unanimously at the last meeting of the society of " The Lours of
Truth," at which Mr. ()west presided. It is, indeed, of the utmott
importance now that right views and feelings should be given to tht
British populace. The Resolutions are :—" That if ever the punist
meat of death has been merited, it has been by the late Minister:
of the ex-King, Charles the Tenth, for advising numsurts to earn
despotism into practice, with the certainty of civil war, and the de.
struction of thousands of their fellow subjects. That these alinistem
too weak to effect their object, failed in the attempt, and same of
them are now prisoners, and under trial by the Government of the
country which they intended to enslave. That as the views, fed.
Inge, and errors of these men, are the consequences of the ignorant
and miserable state of society in which they were educated and lived:
they are, therefore, in strict justice, objects of commiseration and
compassion, and not for punishment. That, therefore, as lovers of
truth and of justice, we propose that our President shall be requested
to usasmit these sentiments to General Lafayette, to be presented by
him to the Chamber of Deputies, to the friends of truth, and to the
friends of the people at Paris, with an earnest entreaty to exert their
influence to sore the lives of these men, whose errors proceeded from
their igecia • and may their present condition become the occasion
of the punishment of death throughout the civilised world.
Rossi's Ownr President."—The meeting at which the above MO.
ludons were passed, was composed of from five hundred to six hundred
reand the same sentiments pervade about four hundred societies
rneit Britain and Ireland, founded on the same principles.