Star.
London, England, 1831-01-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.;
The Chamber of Peers have rejected this day the project
of the law relative to the abrogation of the law of the 11th
of September, 1807, concerning the pensions."—L'Etoile.

The anniversary of the 21st of January falls this year on
a Friday. Uneasiness has seized all the Presidents, Attor-
Dies of the King, and Attorniss-general of the kingdom ;
they have written to the Minister of Justice, to be informed
whether audiences are to be held on that day. The difficulty
is real, because the Anniversary of the 21st of January has
been established by a law, and the Court of Cessation will
be very embarrassed, if they have to administer their censor-
ship on trials rendered on a day (legalement firie) by
law a holiday. For the most part we well know that
many advocates and avowees have resolved to demand
trials on the 21st of January, and that a great number
of magistrates have determined to take their seats in the
Courts of Justice. T i ar, which establishes a political
commemoration only to excite hatred, and to violate the
grand maxim of oblivion, is truly deplorable. But it will
probably help the favourite axiom of M. Dupia the elder,
Dura let, sed let ; and one law will perhaps be abrogated
by another law. We shall say no more why it should
not fall into disuse because it was exesuted last year."—
/mental de Paris.

The political system which reigns at this moment is
entirely in the classic style of our ancient comedies; many
intrigues, which at last terminate by a marriage when it
was thought to give a King to Greece, we searched for a
princess who should espouse him; and it is without doubt
from not having found a Queen that Greece is still without
a King. When it is wished to elect a King for Belgium,
we name beforehand the companion heshouldchoose. Scarcely
is the report spread that the new English Ministry abandons
Don Miguel of Portugal than is proclaimed the August
spouse who shall receive the han of Donn a Maria Gloria.
Happily, the King whom we have chosen, had entered the
marriage state ; otherwise, after having raised him to the
Throne too quickly for European diplomacy to have had time
to interfere, we should see some little Congress occupied in
order to choose for him a wife, in virtue of the Treaties of
1814 and 1815. We attribute to Mr. Canning the grand
principle of non-intervention, and one is astonished that
intervention is more ridiculously active than ever. We be-
lieve it a duty to establish the verity of these facts for
the honour of Mr. Canning.
After the battle of Pavia, Francis I. wrote to his mother :
" All is lost, except honour, and life is saved." Historians
think that in suppressing , life is saved; the phrase would
have been more heroic. It in fact remains consecrated by
posterity, without that second condition—a little citisen.
like. We forget that it was against armed intervention that
Dlr. Canning rose, and not against diplomatic intervention.
tie bad his motives, it was in order to blame
our armed intervention in Spain, an enterprise by order
of Russia, and caused to that country great honour free
from those financial embarrassments which prevented it from
being opposed. This influence displeased England, with
reason. It convinced Mr. Canning that the Congress of
Kings would cease upon the Continent, and that little minis-
terial congresses would be formed in England : it is that
which has arrived, and Russian diplomacy has replaced per-
manent menaces in order to cause armies to march."—Le
National.

Through the channel common to all the newspapers, we
have this day the subjoined articles of intelligence from Ber-
lin, Vienna, and the Frontiers of Poland. Our readers can-
not fail to observe, that the contents of these extracts are

quite at variance with the preceding accounts, derived from
purer sources of information. _ .

BERLIN, JAN. 1.

The troubles in Poised seem inevitably to lead to war; bat ;ovary
weeks will probably elapse before the Russian troops open the campaign,
and this interval may still turn to the advantage of peace. The situ*.
tion of our Grand Duchy of Posen is fully secured by the promptness
and energy of the measures taken by the civil and military authorities;
some Noblemen of the old Polish race, and some enthusiastic young
men, are gone to Warsaw : in Posen they would have found no adhe.
rents among the citizens, and the peasantry, who have derived uncom-
mon advantages from the Prussian legislation and administration,
and do not wish to change the actual state of things for any other.
Though public opinion, generally speaking, is favourable and friendly
to all genuine national improvement, the present cause of the Poles es.
cites, in almost every quarter, disapprobation and regret. The Emperor
Nicholas is universally admired; who, in the great &Acuities of the
present conjuncture. shows the whole energy and elevation of his charac-
ter ; and, at the same time that be adopts the most energetic TONSIIIIB
as his situation and dignity require, announcing the mildest and most
forgiving sentiments. The reprosch of tyranny cannot be made against
the Emperor by the Poles, for it is a fact, that the greatest part of the
intellectual and material resources, nay, even of the natioeel invent.
meat, which now gives strength to the insurrectise, has
been, if not crested, yet encouraged and promoted by the Rambo
Government.
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