Star.
London, England, 1830-11-01 00:00:00

that the alteration in the Ministry had not taken place at
one o'clock on that day ; and was expected, when it did, to
be indicative of moderate policy.

We insert below, a letter from a correspondent of our own,
giving a most appalling account of the destruction of An-
twerp. We are further enabled to state, on the authority
of other private letters received in town this morning,
dated the 29th ult., that property to the amount of fifty
millions of florins has been destroyed. The magnificent
Cathedral, with its fine paintings and other rich furniture,
has partly fallen a prey to the flames. A parley for three
days is said to have been agreed upon; but no doubt ex-
isted of the ultimate surrender of the citadel. Wo now
proceed to the shocking details of our correspondent. He
writes thus :

" ANTWERP, THURSDAY, S rat.

" I arrived bore last night safe. A few shells were thrown
into the town after my arrival. I went to see the fires in dif-
ferent parts immediately : a more shocking and terrible scene
was never witnessed. People lying dead and half dead in
the streets, women and children screaming ; and, I assure
you, I sould not keep from shedding many a tear : 300 red
hot shells were thrown into the town, besides continual
showers of grape shot from the citadel and frigates : two
bomb boats, and two ships of war, were incessantly firing on

the town, from two o'clock yesterday afternoon, until one this
morning. Several Congreve rockets were thrown in. Yots

cannot imagine the devastation and destruction. The Ge-
neral Entrepilt, which contains op the merchandise of the
Antwerp merchants, and is estimated at thirty millions of
florins, is burnt to the ground. The naval and military ar-
senals are burnt to ashes, besides whole streets and some of
the moat magnificent mansions. It is most dreadful. The
cause of all this destruction was merely from a few drunken
Bourgeois, firing at one of the frigates in the river yesterday.
The Dutch and the Belgians have agreed to remain quiet
three days—then, Gun knows what will follow. Parts of
the town are at this moment burning and in flames, and
there is scarcely one pane of glass in half the town next to
the river. 3urnt legs, hands, and beads, are lying in the
streets, and the wounded in every direction. What will this
country become? It is already half-ruined. Although every
thing I look upon here makes me shudder, yet I would not
have missed such a sight on any account."
Letters from Amsterdam, received by the mail this morn-
ing, state that a confirmation of these horrible scenes had
just arrived in that city; and the Dutch funds had fallen
to 371.

At a late hour, this afternoon, we hare a letter from
Rotterdam, dated 29th ult. more particularly descriptive of
the losses sustained at Antwerp. By this letter, it appears
that in the entrepot, fourteen millions of guilders have been
consumed. Tho arsenal, hotel St. Antonio, Klooster-street,
the Place Verde, and part of the beautiful steeple are Con- I
sumed ; and in other respects great damage has been sus-
tamed. It is supposed that 8,000 of the Insurgents have
marched on Bois-le-duc. The Prince of ORANGE had ar-
rived on the Dutch aide at Dort.

It was stated in the City this morning, that the military
and the machine breakers in Kent had had a conflict. We
have just received the means of contradicting this stateoient.

The burnings had also decreased up to last night, some fears
having been occasioned by the knowledge of the fact that
military were on their way to put down the malcontents.—
It is said that disturbances have ;commenced at Manches-
ter. Consols for Account were depressed this morning to
83g. At one o'clock. prices was rather better.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

PARIS, STPT. 30.

Sin—l hasten to inform you that the new French Mi-
nistry is expected to be announced to-morrow. It is still
in doubt whether Casimir Perrier retires. The following ex-
tract from an article in the Constitutionnel, headed " Bulletin
of the night," must supply at present the place of any com-
mentary of my own :—" The Ministry question has taken a
decided character. The Doctrinaries—M. M. Gui ZOT and

De BROGLIE—have retired. The Interior will no longer
be given up to a Minister, who only understands the system
of English aristocracy, so adverse to our manners. A firm
moderation—that is for the moral principle—will characterise
the administration now constituted. As to political princi- ,
plea, the execution of the present laws, the immediate
reform of bad ones, a cheap Government, the right of elec-
tion extended to a more numerous class, but which offers
security in knowledge and in property ; such will be, if we
are well informed, the line of conduct the Ministry will fol-
low. The principle of non-intervention will be rigidly res-
pected, and will be a guide in our foreign relations. To open'
and disguised hostility will be opposed—not a timed explana-
tion and promises without dignity—but the attitude which
can be taken by a nation with a million of National Guards,
and which could bring into the field a million of soldiers.
We shall say nothing of the new men, except that they have
the character, and the patriotism, to be in accordance with
M. Dupont de 1' Eure, who unites wisdom with energy.
More distinguished orators, talented writers, citizens of
great and just influence, will surround a Council so na-
tional, and so fit to give us liberty, without ceasing to•
maintain order. The Journal des Debuts insists on saving
that there cannot be a good Government without M. Casi-
mir Perier. We think the contrary ; for we think that,
whatever might be the services rendered, it is governing
badly, with the fear uppermost of a revolution, an aversion
to its liberal consequences, and the predilection for an heri-
ditary Peerage, and for a second Chamber composed of lord-
lings. '—l am, in great huts, yours, J. L.

Gen.Lallemand has arrived at Havre fromNewYork, in the
packet boat Charlemagne. He is accompanied by another
French General, it is said, whose name we have not learned.
Monitcur.

General Lallemand was one of the refugees to the United
States, when the proscription took place in 1815. He has
formed a military school there, on the same plan as the Poly-
technic school at Paris.

The fears manifested by the inhabitants of the quarter of
the Luxembourg, on the subject of the quarries situated un-
der that part of Paris, could not fail to awaken the solicitude
of the authorities. In virtue of this, orders have been given
by the Prefect of Police ; and a visit has been =dente.
commissioner, accompanied by the architect of the P
ture and the engineer of the quarries of Paris. The OW
minute and attentive examination took place, the result et
which is, that no communication whatever exists between the

catacombs, the quarries of Montrone, and the Palace of the

Luxembourg, and that tho uneasiness is entirely without
foundation.—Monitear.

Upon the order of M. Persil, the Attorney-General, M.
Hubert and M. Thierry wore yesterday committed to Saint-
Pelagic, to submit to the imprisonment of three months,
pronounced against them by the Tribunal of Correctional
Police, in the matter of the society of " Des Awls du Peu-
ple."—Journal du Commerce.

By a letter which has been addressed to the Chamber of
Commerce at Bordeaux, the Consul of Portugal has said
that Don Miguel will readily admit, into the ports of his
kingdom, vessels carrying the tri-coloured flag, and thus
the commercial relations between France and Portugal con-
tinue to exist on the same footing, as under the fallen King
Charles X.—lndicateur.

It is positively asserted that M. to Baron Capell6, ox-Mi-
nister of Charles X. has removed from Germany, and at this
moment he is directing his steps towards Edinburgh.—
Journal du Commerce.

" The National of yesterday, in expressing its regret at
the delay of the issuing of the new French coinage with the
effigy of the King, relates an anecdote connected with the
putting in circulation the first coinage, with the type of
Buonaparte. The fact is correct ; but in consulting the
Journals of that period, it will be seen that the execution de-
sired the day after the First Consul's visit to the Mint, was
so imperfect, that all men of taste highly blamed the issue of
that money, as neither justifying the progress of arts, nor the
reputation justly acquired in the perfection of the French mo-
ney. A public competition for the engraving of the type of
Louis Philippe, would have been, in ordinary times, a cer-
tain means of exciting the emulation of artists. But the
hurried stride of events required that the slowness of the
rule generally observed, should be set aside, and quicker
means be employed; for that end the Government thought it
convenient and seasonable to charge a single engraver with the
execution of it. An order of the Minister of Finance,
of the 21st of August, 1830, appointed M. Galle, Member
of the Institute. This artist immediately set to work,
and the President of the Commission of the Coin ac-
knowledges, in justice to his zeal, that every day, and at
all hours, for the last two months, he has found him
in his workshop, occupied with the noble effigy. The work
is nearly finished, and it appears certain that, by the sth of
November next, the anniversary of the battle of Jemmapes,
the issue of a a considerable number of five-franc pieces will
take place at the Mint of Paris, leaving to a future period
the retouching of the die, if the Masters of the Art consider-1
rit necessary. As to the gold of Algiers, not a single
piece hes been struck from it, the Ministers of Finance
having placed it in re- serve, to be struck at the period
when the die of the new effigy will be finished."—Meniteen

CITY, ONS O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left off on Saturday at 841 for the Ac-
count, opened at 84 6, went down to 84 sellers: at present
they are 83 i 11, Market heavy. Foreign Market, Spanish
Bonds lower 21 I
Letters have been received from Vera Cruz of the 12th
August. At that period, all was tranquil there.
The private letters, by the Express from Paris, state the
now Ministry, although of a revolutionary principle, were
determined to maintain peace in Europe.
CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

We have a report that Mr. Rothschild has taken the
whole of the Dutch loan, of 20 millions of guilders.
The private letters from Antwerp are not of that awful
description, as appears in the Papers. They do not men-
tion that the Cathedral has been destroyed.
We have very bad accounts from Kent: it is said that the
troops have fired, and some lives lost.
Consols, which were as low as 8311 for tho Account, have
improved to 83j; in the Foreign market little or nothing
doing.
We have letters front Antwerp, dated the 29th, 11 o'clock
in the morning, which state that all was quiet : the fight-
ing bad ceased, as they were waiting the orders from tho
Hague for the retreat of the Dutch troops from the citadel.
Letters from Amsterdam state, that the proporty in the En-
trepot at Antwerp, was not more than one hundred and
twenty thousand pounds sterling ; most of the English pro-
perty had been removed to Hamburgh and St. Petersburgh.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30.—The import of cotton this week
is 7,899 bags, and the sales 6,970 bags, at a decline on
Brazil of ith of a penny per lb, and at scarcely last week's
rates for other descriptions. In sugar, upwards of 800 hhds.
of B.P. sugar have been sold this week, at rather lower
prices. In foreign, nothing has been done.
We have a file of Quebec Gazettes to the 20th ult.—
King William the Fourth was proclaimed there with great splen.
dour, and slaty minute guns frost Cape Diamond Battery announced
his accession to the throne. The 15th. 24th. and 32d Regiments
were paraded In full dress before the Governor, and fired a feu-de.
Joie, accompanied by three hearty cheers. Captain Stack commanded
the grenadiers of the 24th, which, with the band of that Regiment,
attended the High Sheriff to proclaim his Ilaiesty through the town,
and the different church bells were ringing during the ceremony.

OLD BAILZY.—(Tais DAT.)

Ma. Sr. Joint Loxo.—With reference to our detailed
report of the trial of Mr. St. John Long, of which we gave
a brief notice on Saturday, and further details in our last
page this day, we have now to state, that be was brought
up at noon to the Old Bailey for judgment, when the RE-
CORDER proceeded thus:—" John St. John Long—You
have been indicted for the crime of Manslaughter. On your
trial, the law and the evidence were fully stated to the Jury
by the learned Judge, who tried the case. The Jury have
thought it their duty to find you Guilty of the crime im-
puted to you; and the Court, having taken into conside-
ration the whole of the circumstances of your cue, the
sentence upon you is, that you pay a fine of 2501. to the
King, and that you be imprisoned in his Majesty's gaol of
Newgate, until the fine be paid."
FORGER T.--JO/XeS Mends was put to the bar on an
indictment, charging him with uttering a certain paper,pur-
porting to be a warrant for the sum of 6141. from the Court
of Directors of the East India House to the Bank of England,
on the Bth of October last. This cue has already been fully
detailed in the police reports. It will be recollected that the
prisoner was a clerk in the India House, and, by virtue of
his office, became aware of the course usually pursued re-
lative to money transactions. On the day in question, the
prisoner went to the Bank, and presented the warrant in
question; doubts arose, and hewas detained until a messenger
was sent to Mr. Goodale, at the warehouses, who dis-
claimed all knowledge of the document. The prisoner then
confessed the document was a forgery, and was given into
custody. The Jury found him Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy on account of his former good character.
Ex:ausrva ROMIZST OF PLATT.—Two brothers,
named Richard and William Watkins, the list of whom was once In
the service of Bir John Rade, at Bhipten, have bees fully cons.
milted for a burglary et that Baronet's mansion. The Menial is a
list of the immense quantity of plate that was stolen, and which as yet
remains undiscovered:-79 silver table spoons, 43 silver dessert
spoons, 81 silver table forks, 24 sliver dessert forks, 19 silver tea.
spoons, 8 silver sauce lodise, 7 silver pavy spoons, silver soup ladles,
I silver Ash knives, I silver marrow spews, 1 silver Wed fork. 4 silver
twisted candlesticks, 4 silver waiters of the value of 1001., I silver caps
end covers, S silver salves* silver imps baskets, 8 slim epergne
sisdishes,
value 1 silver sager basin lot the valve of 71. and one silver lii
ter, 71.