Star.
London, England, 1830-10-12 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Constilutionnei of Saturday, Oct. 9.)
Pwars, OCT. B.—The number et barricades erected at Paris during
the three days of July, amounts to 4,065 : the number of fiag.stones
removed, to 3,124,000 ; the repairing has cost 260,000 franca.
TovLow, Ocr. 2.—lt is thought that Admiral deintraysiywho
will complete his term of quarantine in a few days, will in:
to Paris. It is reported that he is appointed Minister of Marine. if:
whole navy would be delighted with this choice. M. de Rigny, with all
that is requisite to make an excellent naval commander, adds disdn.
guiabed abilities daring the six years that be has commanded the French
naval force in the Levant ; be has been enabled to make himself tho-
roughly acquainted with the foreign policy of the European Powers ;1
and by his superior merit has acquired greet inluenos in all diplomatic
trasnactions. As be has never taken any part in parliamentary debates,
It is possible that M. de Rigny may not at the commencement prove
a successful orator, but under the happy gems:nest under which we
live, it is not the brilliant subdedas at a speaker, that must be sought

in a Sliniater. but ardent patriotism, and a perfect knowledge of the
service at the head of which he is placed. In ell these points M. de
Rigny is the very man ; •and it will be by the acts of a firm and en-
lightened administration that he will make himself brown to the Chem-
bets and to the nation, and merit the gratitude of the Navy, which places
entire conlidence in him.

Peels, Ocroant B.—The circulars and secret ceders of the Mi-
nisters Calomarde and Zambrano, as well as of Carvagal, the In-
spector• General of the Royalist Volunteers, produce their fruits in
Spain. At Madrid, Ferdinand was to be dethroned, perhaps asses-
ainated, and succeeded by his brother Don Carlos ; the Ministers
Ballasteros, Salmon, and Sauer, as well as the Liberals in the
capital, to be massacred, and their houses pillaged ; the in-
, habitants of the lowest quarters of Madrid, who were gained over, were
to co-operate with the Royalist Volunteers in their notable exploits, when
happily, on the 24th of September, the day fixed by the conspirators,
the conspiracy was di►covered just as it was on the eve of execution ; the
streets were filled with soldiers, the squares converted into bivouacs, and
&treats commenced. At Oviedo the assassins, organized by the Bishop,
attempted to make themselves, masters of the depot of arms, and but for
the presence of mind of the officer ou duty, who made an honourable re-
sistance, all the Libetals would have been massacred without mercy.—
At Seville, Dun Vincent Quizada, Captain-General of the Province, see-
ing the public safety endangered by the intrigues of the Royalist Volun.
teers, prudently resolved to disarm them. In short, in all the provinces
of Spain the priests and the monks declaim from the pulpit to excite the
people to make a St. Barthelemy of all those who are known for their li-
ttera! opinions.
At Barcelona the arrests continue. The Carlists of Catalonia, whom
the Count d'Espagne disarmed when Ferdinand came to that province
to punish their rebellion, have just resumed them by order of the same
Count cPlispagne ; and it is, also, by his orders that a Regiment of
Royalist Volunteers is now forming at Barcelona. The Colonel and
Commander of the battalion are known as the most violent partisans of
the Apostolic party in Catalonia. The men who offer themselves are
noblemen's servants, people connected with the Monks—but no honest
workmen, no one connected with manufactures or commerce, has offered
himself.

This Court hat given orders not to suffer any Constitutionalists, or
persons suspected to he such, to travel about. and to fire on all who may
attempt to leave their own communes. Fifty Constitutionalists have
been embarked at Barcelona, and sent to the Presidio.. All the ai-
ms of the old t'onstitutional Militia, supposed to have any influence,
have been arrested and imprisoned some at Mont.Jouy and some In
the Citadel.

Several Frenchmen, who were arrested at Barcelona, applied in vain
to the French Consul, and were released only through the intervention of
their friends. General Monet, and two other General Officers, arrived
at Figueiras on the 30th of September, and reviewed the garrison of 600
men. Batteries of field pieces have been organised, and horses put in
reluisition for them. At the same time, to encourage the Absolutists,
it is reported that an expedition will be made into France to re-establish
the Throne cf Cl:arlea X.

FREWC II FuNDs —Five per Cents. 961 70c 80c 70c 75c 80c 75c 70c
65c 75c fief 110 c 75c 70c 50e ; Three per Cents. 66140 e &,c 60c 45t:
35c 10c 6c ; Rink Stock, 1,700 E 1.705 ; Acmes de Naples, 661 15c 10e
65f 611 85c &V 60c 25c ; Rentes d'Espagne, ; Royal Spanish
Loan, 491 a ; Rcntc Perpetuelle d'Lapagne, 38i 4I 38 381 38. Ex-
change on London, one month. paper, 25f 35c; money, 25f 30e; three
months, paper, 20c; money, 25f 15c.—Cours Authentift44.

THE HAGUE, OCT. 8.
Attention is completely turned front the slow progrcssof the conttnis-
sion of 16 here to the me,: appropriate rapidity with which the Prince of
Orange is following up the object of his mission to Antwerp. His first
proclamation has already produced important good. At the review of the
Communal Guard yesterday, he was hailed with acclamations ; and two
deputations from 31alines and Lier, the first headed by the Archbishop,
have set an example of promptitude and loyalty to the rest of Belgium.
There can be little doubt but that the good sense of the country will pie-
vail over the ambition of the men who direct the bad spirit of Brus-
sels. Tito Prince has, as you will observe by the Antwerp papers, star.
rounded himself by the most repeatable of the leading members of the
States-General, all Belgians, and men of undoubted character and pa-
triotism. An individual exception might be made, but this is not a
time for invidious scrutiny. Such mcn as Surlet de Chokier, Le Hon,
de Brouckere, and the great majority of the Prince's Council, hold out
every hope that may be founded on the junction of talent and experience
with wealth and honesty.
Some cavillers think the Prince's proclamation vague in one expression
—that in which he promises a full pardon for "political faults." It is
imagined that an intention may be in reserve of punishing the military
men who have joined the rebel ranks. The character of the Prince, and the
circumstances of the times are sufficient to refute this sinister suspicion,
of which, however, it is to be feared M. de Potter and his colleagues will
not fail to take advantage. They have, it appears, pronounced Belgium
independent. That measure must have sprung front oneof two causes—ac.
tual despair at their situation in consequence of internal dissensions, or un-
qualified encouragement from France. In the first case, the proceedings
of the Prince of Orange will, in all likelihood, shatter this ephemeral
fabric of republicanism ; in the second, the work must be performed by
England, Prussia, and Austria, who cannot, in the teeth of their own
treaties, and (probably a more powerful argument) of their own in.
terests, stand by unmoved spectators of this double game.
While Belgium is left struggling into tranquillity through the efforts
of the Prince, or being warped into the still more crooked line of
treason and misery, traced by its self-named Government, this portion
of the country is vigorously organising all its force for the common
good. The King's appeal has been answered by a general
movement of loyalty. Thousands of volunteers are pouring in,
and young men of the first families are joining the ranks for the ser-
vice of the garrisons, which form the second line of national defence.
11. Van Msanen, and the other newly-appointed Ministers, mention.
ed in my last letter, have already begun to bestir themselves. The
King is, as usual, indefatigable in his exertions. Prince Frederick,
who arrived here this morning from Antwerp, will now give his whole
attention to the completion of the army,—a duty from which he never
should have been removed for the ill-fated expenditure against Brussels.
Every Dutchman, in short, is at his post, preparing for the worst which
may arise from the general convulsion.—Private Letter from the
Times.

MADRID. SEPT. 27.
Spain needs only the impulse to be given, and she will revolutionize;
but the exasperations of her factions will render her revolution a civil
war, the issue of which cannot be doubtful. The liberty of a nation
never loses by a civil war, when the struggle is undertaken by a people
against the minions of tyranny. To prove that the Spanish nation is
now ripe for sueli7a contest, I need but refer to the constitution of 1820,
which, cradled by the enthusiasm of a few individuals, was welcomed
by:millions, and thrived, notwithstanding the suicidal effects of poll.
deal inexperience, and the incapacity flora thence arising. Was not
that constitution maintained against the same powers that now sway
the absolute authority of the Court ? Did it not exist for three years,
until banished from the land by 100,000 French bayonets ? The Cortes
was proclaimed at the Isla at a time when France was known to be a
ready auxiliary of the dynasty and faction against whose absolute con-
troul it contended ; and' yet it was sucettaul. What is the fact now ?
The French nation not only are friendly to the enterprise, but have
themselves shown the example. A correct judgment of the fitness of
Spain for a liberal Government may thus be formed without visiting
the country, unless the paradox of a nation retrograding in civilization
and free opinions, amidst universal liberalism, can be supported.
The last Cortes made enemies among the grandees, by their not ad-
mitting a Chamber of Peers. That was an error which they now ac.
knowledge ; the new constitution will, I believe, provide for it. The
opinions of that class are divided: the old grandees are misfiles ; the'
young ones are incline) to liberalism, which would be increased by the
prospect of having a share in the Gevemmeet. They are now the body
servants of their King, or little better, and entirely at his disposal, or of
the faction that rules for him. Their personal fortunes are, generally,
much deteriorated, and consequently their influence is not so great as
might be expected; yet sufficiently so to be disadvantageous to the
li-
berty of the country, if provoked to hostility by a revolution threaten-
ing to sweep them into a nonentity has than what they now are.
Freedom of speech, though not sate, is very general here. Great
curiosity prevails with respect to the events in France and the state of
that frontier. This can only arise from one feeling. In my next I will
detail the military force of the Government, and continue my informa-
tion on the state of the country. I will now merely add, that there are
about 12,000 troops in this capital, but they cannot all be depended
upon. Mercantile letters inform us that General Mina has entered
Navarre.—lbid.