Star.
London, England, 1831-06-23 00:00:00

IXTRACTS PROM THE JOURNALS.

In spite of the denials of the Moniteur, it ap-
pears certain that a camp will be formed at Lille.
General Billiard will have the command. Anothe

camp upon the Meuse is also spoken of.—La Quo-
tidienne.

The Republican Committee of Paris has dis-
patched by its agent to Marseilles, a project of as-
sociation between the National Guard and the
army, to resist the orders of power, in case the
system of the just medium should prevail in the
direction of the affairs of the state.—La Quoti-
dienne.

Count Paskewitz Erivanski is named by the
Emperor Nicholas General-in-chief of the Army
of Poland, in place of Marshal Diebitscb, who is
since dead. The Emperor has borne a strong
affection to General Diebitsch, in proof of which
he has declared that he was the only one of his
generals who was capable of commanding in chief
with success, and that he has said that he should
regard as a subject badly intentioned against his
master, whoever should make insinuations against
the Prussian General. But a reaction of the Rus-
sian party against the German party, so protected
by Nicholas, has forced the Emperor to dismiss
his favourite General. This circumstance
proves that the war of Poland causes
embarrassments to Russia, and a moral trouble,
of which the rebound is felt even in the palace
of the Czars. For a long time Nicholas has been
reproached with giving his confidence only to the
Germans : they are, in truth, the most capable and
most faithful servants. The Emperor feels espe-
cially that he has not to fear on their part those
conspiracies which have precipitated from the throne
several of his predecessors. Now that the Russian
party has just obtained a first victory at the Court
of St. Petersburgh, we cannot foresee where it will
stop, or what extraordinary measures they will
exact from the Emperor. We believe that the
Poles will gain by this change, which cannot fail
of bringing restrictions to the Imperial Authority,
and exciting amongst the Russian Nobles a spirit of
independence, which may, perhaps, bring about
the recognisance of Poland with its ancient limits.—
Messager.
The important news of the passage of the Niemen,
by the division of General Gielgud is confirmed
by the Official Gazette of Berlin, of the 14th.
" The Polish General Gielgud has arrived with
twelve thousand men at Gilgudischken. Four
thousand regular troops pushed on to Kowno, the
division of the Russian General Sacken, composed
of eight thousand men. Numerous bands of pa-
triots had effected their junction during this march.
The Russian corps has taken position at Kowno.
General Gielgud made a false attack upon his po-
sition with two thousand men, and during the
time he traversed in the night the Niemen with all
his troops, to unite with Major Puachet in Sa-
mogotia."
We believe that the return of Louis Philippe
to Paris will be almost immediately followed by
a modification in the Ministry. M. Casimir Pe-
rier is very discontented with M. Sebastiani, and
M. d'Argout. These two Ministers will quit the
Council, or be will retire himself. The heredita-
ryship of the peerage is definitively abandoned by
the Government. It is still, however, a cause of
schism in the Cabinet. M. Sebastiani and M.
d'Argout are partisans for the peerage, being he-
reditary, as M. Casimir Perier was likewise ; but
M. Sebastiani, and M. d'Argout, are not willing to
change opinion, like M. Casimir Perier. New
electoral instructions have been addressed to the
Prefects in the sense of the peerage being non-be-
reditary.—Joureal du Havre.
Discord is in the ministerial camp. In the last
councils, impressed by the event of Metz— by the
Russian insolence—and especially by the last com-
motion, our statesmen have exchanged hard words
—unpolite truths. The first warning was launched
by estafette ; it bore the address of Count d'Ar-
gout, of which the finger was visibly marked in the
Royal reply to the communication. A formal order
was intimated to the unskilful Minister,not to offend
the self-love of the citizen-militia, the rampart of the
new dynasty. M. d'Argout will obey. Exterior af-
fairs have provoked most irritating debates, during
which M. Sebastiani has constantly rested upon
his seat. They have retaken ab ovo that diploma-
tic system, composed of cowardice and contradic-
tion—they have weighed the fruits of shameful
condescensions, and the evidence of facts has
proved that all our past humiliations have not
brought a single guarantee for the future ; that the
most grave concessions, the most silly disinterested-
ness, the sacrifice of our natural alliances, the ad-
vances to absolute sovereigns, have not made a
single step to the question of peace or war. It
was necessary to render logical the results. Then in
the midst of the Ministry a plot is formed to
sacrifice a member to the salvation of the body. Of
all the actual councillors, none bears so discreditable
a name as M. Sebastiani. His theory of consent-
ing, and not preventing, his promises to the Italian
refugees, who had the gibbet for commentary, his
gathering recognizances at any price, his malevo-
lent pity for Poland, has rendered him the point
against which to aim all popular anathemas. From
this, his colleagues have said, disembarras us of M.
Sebastiani. For an instant, even, it was thought
to charge with a new portfolio the President of the
Council, the veritable atlas of the monarchy. They
have however recoiled before the ridicule of a mi-
nister with three faces, replying on one side to the
interior, on the other to war, and on the third in
fact to the exterior relations. The dismission re-
mains inchoate, but they wait but the return of the
king to put it in execution.—La Revolution.
We Teed in a Swiss Journal, the Ridgenosse of
the 10th of June, the number of troops which are
upon the Austrian frontiers of Switzerland, amoants
to nearly 10,000 men. Then Austria has 100,000
men in Lombardy, that we can understand ; she
watches France, and France does the same with
regard to Austria; but 10,000 also near our fron-
tiers is for us a subject of astonishment, since that
power has nothing to fear from us. Another Swiss
Journal, the Gazette de Thurgovie, reports the
following: It is certain now that the Austrian
troops. which occupy Vorarlberg, and are eantoned
along the Rhein, that will still receive considerable
reinforcements. This development of forces occa-
sions much rumour in all the country; for never,
in time of peace, have they seen so many troops
upon that frontier. But our military commanders
hold themselves upon their guard, for we are not in
peace, although all around us may be tranquil.
The French journals having announced that Fin-
land was not a Sovereignty satisfied with its union
to Russia, and that it thought of uniting its efforts
to those of the Poles, the Gazette of Petersburgh,
in its number of the 4th of June, replies smartly.
" All these assertions are false," it says ; " but, it
is the habitual tactic of the demagogue. party, who

LONDON.

THURSDAY. JUNE 23.

'lbis day the QUEEN held a drawing-mom at
St. James's Palace, being the last of the season.

At noon, the SPEAKER of the House of Com-
mons, accompanied by a number of the Members,
waited upon the Kt NG with their Address, in con-
sequence of his MAI EST Y'S 11108 t, Gracious Speech
at the opening of Parliament.

Lord HILL held a Levee at the Home Guards
this afternoon. The Levee was attended by about
thirty General and as many other Officers.

This morning the customary despatches were re-
ceived from the Hague and from Paris. Those from
Paris speak of the tranquillity that prevailed in that
city when the despatches came away.

Every other consideration to a Briton is ab-
sorbed to-day, by the horrible and heart-rending
confirmation of the fact we communicated yester-
day, that some armed partizans have committed
another FRIGHTFUL SLAUGHTER of the people
in Ireland. We have therefore now had THREE
MASSACRES within a month, to an extent unpa-
ralleled in the Constitutional Government of this
realm. And we have, too, had a series of special
commissions and melancholy additions to our lists
of annual punishments. All this too under the
best of Kings, and an administration liberal par
excellence.

There must be some mistake—some wrong-
heads—some false policy, somewhere. It is not
merely the essence of all liberality, but of all
common sense, justice, and humanity, that when-
ever there are complaints of wrong, there should
be inquiry, explanation, and redress ; and power
ought not to begin with the gibbet, the tran-
sport ship, the sword, and the musquet. This
is the radical error; and when we allude to it, as
connected with the measures of an enlightened ad-
ministration, we are persuaded that the trite maxim
of putting redress before punishment, has either
been taken for granted, or by mere inadvertency,
has not been promulgated among the subaltern
agents of authority.
SEVENTY Two killed and wounded at Myrther
Tydvil.
TWENTY OE THIRTY at an uproarious Irish
fair—and now again
Nearly ONE HUNDRED in a dispute about
selling three heifers, taken as tythe !
Thank GOD, Parliament is now sitting ; and we
shall, of course, have a thorough investigation of
these sad scenes. They are new to our history ;1
and they lacerate public feeling too much to re-1
quire any commentary. We have seen many
mobs, but none on which fair promises did not
effect far more than lofty exertions of power. We
hope that each affair will be thoroughly sifted ; but,
in the mean time, we are persuoded, that they ori-
ginate in no policy of government, and will be as
painful to KING and Ministers as to the public.
The preceding intelligence was printed in the
STAR of yesterday ; and, though Irish Members
were speaking last night, in the House of Com-
mons, yet no observations passed on the subject of
this fresh tragedy. In truth, it is memorable, that
although one hundred and fifty New Mem-
bers were chosen by the People in the late Elec-
tions, and, as we may presume, for their talents and
public spirit, yet on the first evening, no one of
them spoke ; and on the second evening, we have
only a few incidental observations from Sir ROBERT
HARTY, the new member for Dublin. We needed
new performers, but we gain little, if they can sus-
tain no parts. There was subject-matter enough for
genius, talent and patriotism ; the silence of these
new candidates for parliamentary glory excites,
therefore, very general surprise.
The death of DIEBITSCH, happily for Poland
and the moral feelings of all Europe, is confirmed ;
and he died by a retribution of justice of the very
disease which he had been the instrument of spread-
ing so unmercifully inPoland. The Prussian journals
in their dilemma, would rather have us believe
that this man was singly selected by the disease,
than that it is ravaging the Russian armies.
Polish Prussia would be endangered if the Rus-
sians are beaten, and hence falsehoods of all
kinds are promulgated by the vassal press of
Berlin. The truth is, that of the 150,000 Russians
lost in Poland since February, one-third have been
killed by the Poles; one-third by famine and wea-
ther, and one-third by cholera ; while this last
scourge, owing to their temperance, has little affected
the Poles. Baron Tom., of whom the annals of vic-
tory know nothing, has taken the immediate com-
mand ; but it will be observed in the letter of our
Paris correspondent, and in the extracts we have
made this day from the Paris Papers, that General
PAIREWITCH had been appointed General-in-
chief, previous to the death of Dizarrscx ; and
that his appointment is supposed to originate in
a change of some importance in the Russian
Councils. The Pelee, and all the world, must feel

I that the death of DIEBITICU, at such a crisis, as.
sums their independence; and they have only one
danger to avoid—the intrigues of such foreign in-
terference as now endanger Belgium.

The HOUSE of LoRDS yesterday presented the
Address, and then adjourned.
The HOUSE of COMMONS adjourned also at the
early hour of Eight.

Mr. SADLER, Who is a benevolent Tory, gave
notice of a motion on the 7th of July, for the in-
troduction of poor laws into Ireland ; and of
other measures on the 14th, for bettering
the condition of the poor in England.—
In both he will have the hearty good
wishes of all the benevolence in the country ; and
we cannot withhold an expression of our surprise,
that measures of the same kind have not long since
originated with Ministers themselves. They were
equally demanded by facts and by the feelings of
the public.
Mr. TAANT and Mr. EWART gave notice of
some intentions relative to the Punishment of
Death—a system disgraceful to our Laws.
Mr. SLANEY gave notice of a plan for an open
space near large towns for exercise and recreation.

Mr. LEADER presented petitions against the
Irish Tythe System, the fate of which is likely to
be accelerated by the horrible Tragedy near Ferns.
An account was promised of the public money
' expended to relieve the Famine in Ireland ; and
' however great it will not be begrudged.
Mr. HUMS considered Lord ALTHORP'S Budget
as successful, because it bad removed duties on
coals, candles, slates, and calicoes.
Lord ALTIIORP stated, tl.at he still meditated
the duty on raw cotton, and the alteration in the
wine duties, while he did not abandon the proposed
change in timber.
Sir H. blows, Mr. TRANT, Sir G. CLERK,
and several Members, thought something should
have been said about PROVIDENCE in the KING'S
Speech; but Mellen. HUNT, WA REURTON, TOR-
RENS, and R. GRANT, ridiculed such hypocrisy,
as canting and irreverent.

Mr. O'CowN ELL lamented that the case of the
Poles had not been referred to in the speech. He
thought, too, that Belgium ought to have the
boundaries of 1790. He asserted that the famine
in Ireland existed in the midst of local plenty, and
that thousands were starving, while cargoes
of provisions were allowed to leave the
ports. He arraigned the English Government
as the sole cause, and claimed a third of the
tythes for the poor. He did not desire to em-
barrass the present Ministers, whose plans he
eulogized ; but Ireland was the spoil of the worst
species of borough faction.
Mr. SADLER wished to see the rich surplus
land of 1-eland cultivated, and a tax laid on ab-
sentees.

Sir ROBERT HASTY expressed some hopes from
the introduction of Poor Laws, and regretted that
the King's Speech in regard to Ireland was so
vague.

Lord ALTHORP 'Ascribed 'the distresses to a
failure of crop, and expressed himself averse to the
introduction of poor laws. He approved of the
laws as they stand in regard to landlord and tenant ;
and said, that if the poor law system were adopted,
it would be only because Government were driven
into it, while every other means suggested by po-
litical economy ought first to be tried.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

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