Star.
London, England, 1830-10-15 00:00:00

(From the Colutitutionnel of Wednesday.)

In the late sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, M. de Tracy Laid the
following amendment upon the table of the President of the Chamber.
The requiring security from public journals is suppressed. Any jourli
nal or journals which shall not, within a month from the date of this
notice, pay the tine or floes, to which they may have been condemned,
shall cease to exist, and the editor shall be incapacitated from acting as
such for any other paper, until the fine has been discharged. The
Stamp Duty has been suppressed; it will be replaced by a Patent
Duty. The Patents will be divided into two classes, according
to the amount of annual subscription, namely, 1,000 francs for those
which require a subscription of 60 francs and under, and 2,000 francs
for all those who may exceed that sum. The Post-office charge shall
be one centime on each small sheet, and two centimes for every large
one. This amendment having been proposed upon the first article. it is
probable that upon the continuation of the debate it will form the sub-
ject of 31. Bayou's discourse.

From Le Temp of Wed:sudsy.
THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS.

One hundred and thirty new elections are about to take
place. This will be a trial, from which several advantages
may be drawn. There will be now afforded an opportunity
of judging of the suppression of double votes, and the change with
respect to age. A alculation may be made as to the exact measures
which ought to be taken for aiding the national welfare. Legislative
powers will require more independence and effect from the moral dm-
racier of the newly-elected Members, and by the reliance in
their exertions in a Chamber not sufficiently numerous to be
powerful, and which, heretofore, was content with mere acts
of transfer. The re-election or rejection of some of the fano-
donuts@ will show the force of public opinion, and will make a
distinction between such public offices, which the law was unwilling
to establish. The Chamber of Deputies thus organised will afford a
sure ground of comparison to the Crown, in order to fill up the vault.
des in the Chamber of Peers, and which is expected to have the aristo-
cracy of the age faithfully represented. A budget, the outline of which
must be modified in an essential manner, will be carefully prepared, as
there has been sufficient time to affect that object. The firm verdicts of
the juries will tranquillise public opinion, which the apprehension of the
laws being abused, and the suspicious conduct of some of the magis-
trates, has kept in a state of agitation. It is also to be hoped, that the
affairs of Belgium will be settled in such a manner that the Belgians
may enjoy alithose national privileges which they are entitled to, and
that Europe may have a guarantee for securing a lasting pesee, which
all its Oovanmeuts are equally in want of, and which was the principal
pound for increasing our army.

(From ,Le Moniteur of Wednesday.)
Pears, OCT. 12.--To-day, at one o'clock, the King received, in
a private audience, his Excellency M. Lam btuschini, .Archbishop of
Beryte, who presented to his Majesty the letters of his Holiness tbe
Pope, accrediting him in the character of Nuncio of the Holy Apostolic
See, at the Court of France. Count Gustave de Loewenhielm, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of
Sweden and Norway,who also presented to his Majesty letters from his
sovereign, accrediting him in that character at the Court of France. AI.
Lunbruschini and Count de Gustave Loewenhielm were presented to the
King byCouotMole, Minister and Secretary of State for the department of
Foreign Affabs,who afterwards presented them to the Queen,and Prince,
and Princesses of the Royal Family. The same day Colonel Soilage,
charged by his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden to transmit
to the King the reply of his Sovereign to the letter, notifying the acne-
sion of his Majesty, was also received in a private audience. The Na-
tional Guard and gendarmerie arrested yesterday in the neighbourhood of
Rarnbouillet, 10 or 12 individuals, who are strongly supected of having
formed part of the gang which robbed the Nantes mail. They had and
upon a man who passed through the forest in the morning. His thigh
was broken by the bail. The persons arrested are well known as bad
characters. Their object, they said, was to make money. The investi-
gation continues, and every thing leads us to believe that none of the
malefactors will escape public justice.

Front La Quotidteane of Wednesday.
Letters from Frankfort state that Austria has transtnitteed to M. Ot-
wrack her Internuncio at Constantinople, a note concerted with the Ca-
binet, authorising her Minister to advise the Divan to accede to her re-
quest which will be made by General Guilleminot, to recognise the
King of the French ; but on the express condition of the immediate
evacuation of Algiers, an evacuation already promised to England.
Letters from Stlitgatd announce that, according to the last resolutions
of the Germanic Diet, the Wurtemberg contingent for the Army
Confederation is being formed. The Casette of Hanover denies
eflicially what has been stated in 1100311 OMANI papers, that the
public tranquillity had been disturbed. They daily expect the orders
of King William IV. to furnish the Hanoverian army with its full cam-
plettment. The Germanic Diet, at one of its last sittings, voted the
min of 10,732 florins for the expenses of quartering the Austrian troops,
who, on the Ist of November next, will arrive at Mayence.
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(From the Journal du Commerce of Wednesday.)
The Prefect of Bouches.du.lthone has made known that the Consul.
General of Austria at Marseilles has received an official despatch, an.
bouncing that his Government has recognised that of Louis Philip I.
We are not yet in possession of such information at Paris.

Frogs the Courier Frames& qf Wednesday.
Disturbances took place in the City of Breslau on the 28th Sept. but
they were ptumptly suppressed by the Burgher Guard and the garrison.
No person was killed or wounded, but many houses, Inhabited by
Jews, had the windows broken. Disorders of the same kind broke out
at Manheim on the 24 Oct. They were also directed against the Jews,
and were quickly suppressed.
PAM' STOCK EXCIISNOZ, OCT. 13.--Five per Cents, 961. 10c k
961 98f 90e 95c 80c 60c 5e 95f 66c 60c 611 e 70c 76e 86c 76e 80e ; three
per Cents, 64f 96e 65f 64f 95e 70c 46e 60e We 611 e 64f 70c ; Bank At.-
'ions, 1709 f 1702 f 504; Rente de Naples, 63f We 70e 8k 90e 86e 80e;
Rent* d'Espagne, 18; Royal Spanish Loan, 49 4911 60; Rente
;Jeweils d'Espagne, 39i1 39 38/ 39 381 39 ; Haitian Loan, 360 f.
Excnawas ox LOSIDON.--Orle Month,l Paper, 221 30e ; Money,
25( 30c. Throe Months, Paper, 98f lk ; essay, 211ir 18e.

BELGIUM.
srs FILINCJVLII OF • FIDIOLATIVI OUTS •FPLIND TO 211141111111.
This question is of the highest importance, foe it comprehends the fun-
amanita point of the system of government. It cannot, therefore, be
sufficiently bed and examined.
In the first what is understood by a federative state P—lt is the
union of many states or political powers, consecrated by treaties or con-
slitutions, which connect, more or less, their interests together.
It results from this definition that the wad " federative" has only a
rogue sense es long as one does not express in what the federation con-
suns. Is It composed of sovereign 'tams, or only of erevinces not move-

reign in their territory, which would have their internaladministration
with provincial states, but subject. as to the rights of sovereignty, to
the general interests of the country—to the General Assembly of the
States? This should be dearly understood.
We must suppose that it cannot be contemplated amongst us to con-
stitute each of the provinces of Belgium a separate sovereignty, united
by a treaty of federation, as the old republic of Holland was formed ;
forkre should soon experience the troubles and divisions which were the
principal cause of the deecv of the latter states.
Alf one afterwards examines, :with reference to Internal government,
the consequences which result from this division of a country into little
sovereignties, we shall meet with difficulties at every step. Should
it be proposed to execute some great undertaking, such as the construc-
tion of canals, roads, &c. it would be necessary to obtain the consent
of all the provinces through which the canals must proceed. One of
those provinces, however, is interested in preventing the execution of
these undertakings which are useful to the interests of the country, and
opposes it. There are no means of extorting consent but by war.
The enlargement of the canal from Brussels to Wellebroeck might
be an instance of the truth of this assertion. Antwerp is evidently in-
terested in preventing the port of Brussels from receiving vessels capa-
ble of performing long voyages, although Southern Brabant, Hainault,
and Namur. would derive advantage from it.
Fresh difficulties present themselves with respect to taxes, charges,
national property—such as fortresses, their maintenance, their defence,
he ; and even with respect to the booty taken from the enemy.
Let us remember, that at the commencement of the 17th century,
when Holland had hardly gone through half the period of war which
she endured in order to obtain her emancipation, troubles arose between
Holland and the six other provinces. Holland contended that each pro-
vince should exercise sovereign power in its own territory, and that
thenceforth the other provinces should net be permitted to Interfere with
what was done in her territory. These unfortunate discussions were
continued during the duration of the republic with more or less in.
convenience.

Scarcely had the republic of Holland obtained the recognition of the
state as a republic before new disputes arose because the Dutch pro.
vince wished not to adopt the resolution agreed upon by the other states
relative to the disbanding of troops. The dispute was carried to such
an extremity that arms were resorted to, and the city of Amsterdam
inundated the country around to a considerable extent, as a defence
against the army, preferring to subject itself to a considerable injury
rather than submit.

It was likewise owing to internal troubles chiefly occasioned by the
dissidence of the provinces, that Holland found it impossible to support
her fleets, and that in the war of 1780 her commerce and her colonies
became the spoil of the enemy.
Let us then reject every measure, every proposition, which may lead
to rivalries and disorders.
The President Henrion de Pansey is right in saying that municipal
authority is unknown in France. He desires to create it :it is the wish
of the nation. However, Belgium, although formed of provinces not
sovereign, each separate province may adopt the municipal system in
every thing which concerns the internal administration of each of them.
Thus cities would have their magistracy appointed by the inhabitants ;
they would regulate their expenses they would have their Internal ad-
ministration. The provinces would thus have their States nominated
by the inhabitants, with authority for all the province. Thus would
be united the advantages of intentsl liberty and external force, in sup.
port of enterprises which require the concurrence of all parts of the
nation. J. B. STEVENS, Advocate.

(From the Courricr des Pays Baa of October IS.)
NATIONAL CONVENTION ELECTIONS.
THE rilovisioSAL GovEANNEXT Or NELOION, CENTRAL
COMMITTEE.

With reference to the commission intrusted with the preparation of a
constitution for Belgium, and to propose an ordinance to regulate the
elections of a national convention.

Taking into consideration that the conven:ion summoned to determine
with respect to the interests of Belgium ought to be a true national re.
presentation, it is therefore now necessary to adopt a direct and liberal
system of election ;
" Nevertheless, taking into consideration that circumstances demand
the prompt assembling of the convention, end that a system of election
which should retain nothing of the foundation of the ancient electoral
system would occasion delay, and that the mode of election in which we
shall now is only temporary,
" It is
" I. The National Convention shall be composed of two hundred
Deputies.
" IL The members of the National Convention shall be chosen
directly by the citizens.