Star.
London, England, 1831-06-02 00:00:00

BELUIU M.

TROUBLES upon the Left Bank of the Rhine.
W e have had communicated to us the following
details upon the troubles which have taken place on
the occasion of the assembling of the Landwehr of
the circle of Sarrebourg. " The Prussian Land-
wehr of the circle of Sarrebourg, at three leagues
from Grevenmacher upon the Sarre, were called
the 20th of May under arms. When it arrived at
the place destined for the assembling, the soldiers
began crying " Vivent lea Beiges !" Their chiefs
present, as well as the Landreth (Commis-
sioner of the District,) endeavoured to impose
silence on them, by threatening to send
them to prison. Upon which they redoubled their
cries of Vivent les Beiges ! We are not Prus-
sians, they said proudly : we will not be, no never !
We are true Belgians ! The authority immediately
mounted his horse, to call in, for the re-establish-
ment of order, 30 hussars, which were stationed
there. On their arrival they charged the indivi-
duals with their sabres, and wounded several ; but
the soldiers indignant at this violence, to be thus
charged by armed men, without arms in their hands,
armed themselves with batons, poles, &c. and
charged in their turn the hussars. These were
obliged to make a hasty retreat, and to pass the
Sarre, by swimming.—lndependent.
THE AIN OF THE HOLY ALLIANCE IN Bag,
o tum.—The affairs of Belgium draw towards a
close. The letter of Lord Ponsonby has dissipated
the illusions which the Belgians had made, upon
the results which would be produced for them, by
the election of the Prince of Saxe-Coburg. The
conference has nothing changed in its twenty-
second protocol; only it has given hopes thst it,
will support a pecuniary transaction for Luxem-
burg; and, to give more weight to that com-
munication, Lord Ponsonby threatens Belgium
with the armies of the five great Powers. A grievous
sensation was manifested in the Congress, when
they heard an Englishman announce to Belgium
the hostile intervention of a French army ; and, in
fact, could Belgium have expected this of us ? Is it
we who could join a crusade of the Holy Alliance
against a revolution which had its birth from ours?
The Belgians are our natural allies ; in case of war,
there are 100,000 brave soldiers who will fight
with us. Is it not ingenious, that a combination
should bring about a pretext for Europe to fall upon
an ally, that we even should aid to humiliate, op-
press, and crush it? Will it not be matter of rejoicing
for the Holy Alliance to see Belgian blood flow under
French bayonets ? And when that odious specta-
cle shall have raised against us the execrations of
the people—when the Belgians shall only breathe
against us hatred and vengeance—when, in one
word, we shall have lost the only Allies upon
whom we could count, will not the projects of the
Holy Alliance against France become of much
easier execution ? Will they not place us in the
isolation where the policy of our govertment tends
to conduct us, and which brings about the so-
complishment of the views of our enemies Here
is, then, probably, the motives which have guided
the Conference of London, and which has found
in M. Talleyrand a devoted accomplice. Maledic-
tion upon the Ministers who would favour such
abominable treason—who would send forth French
soldiers against Belgium l That paracidal thought
cannot be accomplMed.— Courier Francais.
OF THE I11311)1111C1 OP WAIL IN 111110/1131.
—At last, the curtain Is drawn; that which we
have always said —thatwhioh we have never ceased
to repeat—will be verified. Belgium is the dupe

of a long mystification. Never have the Cabinets
of Europe, represented by the conference of Lon-
don, a serious thought of giving to Belgium the ex-
istence and nationality which France and England
so solemnly promised to it. Embassies, receptions,
official and officious communications, conferences,
protocols, all have been deceit and delusion. This
comedy has lasted nine months. Lord Ponsonbv has
just put an end to it, by declaring to the amazed. Bel-
gians that it would be necessary for them to conquer
from France, England, Prussia. Austria and Rus-
sia, a part of the provinces without which there
cannot exist for that unhappy country neither po-
litical force nor safety. The Congress has shewn,
in its inexcusable blindness, a most fatal abitinence.
The election of the Duke of Nemours, solicited by
the Palais Royal, supported by it, then after a
sufficiently long time decidedly rejected, ought to
have opened the eyes of the assembly ; warnings
have not been wanting already, at that epoch.
The Press raised a corner of the curtain, which
concealed from the Belgians the scenes of which
the Foreign-Office and the Palais Royal were al-
ternately the theatre. We like to believe, that still
faithful to their mission of honour and liberty, the
two presses of France and Belgium, will not remain
tranquil spectators of the position in which events
are placed. Already the Courrier des Pays-Bas
has not feared to print the following lines :
" War—now more than ever. War—for we half
see what will be the end ; war— for the tenacity and
pride of the powers draw it on, and their assurance
will recoil upon itself with indecision. The day has
arrived, events are passing; it requires that we
should advance by ourselves ; surprise, seize by the
force of things, the ratification of our acts. Shame,
misfortune, to us ! if after the experience of a first
fault, we relapse into the snare of Diplomacy.
Shame and misfortune, if we show more fear to
finish our revolution, than we showed to commence

it." The Independent, a journal, which has the'
name of expressing generally the opinions of the
present cabinet of Brussels, does not remain be-
hind. Its number of Sunday terminates by this
short but energetic article : " War then ! war
since the powers will have it. The Belgians will
march against their adversaries,and the first cannon-
shot fired, we shall see whether these interior
enemies, who make the protocols of London, are as
much in agreement as they pretend to be." We, I
also, believe that Belgium has no other hope of
salvation than in war, and in immediate war.—
La Revolution.