Star.
London, England, 1831-04-14 00:00:00

LONDON.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14.

The Paris Estafette of this morning enables us to lay be-
fore our readers, we believe exclusively, several interesting
extracts from the French Journals. The most important of
these have reference to the progress of insurrection in Li-
thuania, and a more recent victory achieved by the Poles,
which has terminated in the entire defeat of General Gets-
siAn, who is said to be now a prisoner. The condition of
Drtnyrscii is so perilous, that we may soon expect a si-
milar account of him. and his division of the Russian army.
While such is the gratifying intelligence from the seat of
actual war, we call our reader's attention, with almost equal
satisfaction, to the symptoms of defection, observable in
another department of the unjustly usurped territorial posses-
sions, which the apathy, or misdirected energies of the other
European Powers, have suffered the ambitious Muscovites
to conquer, and add to their gigantic Empire. We allude
particularly to the accounts of a want of confidence betray-
ing itself, in the conduct of the Russian Government,
towards the authorities in Finland, and towards the Finland
part of the army. Great, indeed, will be the debt of grati-
tude, due by all the civilized states of Europe, towards
the Poles, should they succeed, as they appear to be
doing, in checking the progress of Russian ambition—
an ambition which the wisest politicians have always viewed
with the utmost degree of apprehension. To the Rus-
sians we have no enmity as a people :—we look, on
the contrary, upon their rapid advance in civili-
zation—in learning—and the arts, with great in-
terest and gratification; but there is something in the poli-
tical state of their government and relation to the nations
around them, which renders them, we conceive, prone to
military adventure and territorial aggrandisement. The
Government possesses masses of brute physical force,
too much at its control, and too hungry, not to be
viewed with jealousy in all its operations. It is the
heart of, fortunately, an unwieldly, but at the same time,
if unopposed, powerful barbarian POLYPHEMUS ; and
the Ulyssean skill of European politicians, we apprehend, is
well employed in watching his motions, and keeping him as
much as possible to his own den.

We need not wonder that the Berlin Gazettes have so
studiously perverted the events in Poland, since it now ap-
pears, that the Prussian Polish province of Posen, has so
sensitively sympathized with the rest of Poland. We hope
that the Poles of Posnia will do their duty, for Russia
being hors de combat, the Poles will be a match for Prussia,
and by a seasonable diversion, prevent the interference of
the Prussian Army in Luxemburgh and Belgium.

In addition to the subjoined extracts, from the Brussels
papers, received this morning, and which contain several in-
teresting particulars, partly corroborated by passages in our
exclusive extracts from the Paris papers, we have been in-
formed, that private advices from Paris, alluding to the re-
turn of General BELLIARD to that capital, from Belgium,
state him to be the bearer of intelligence, that England is
forthwith about to take a commanding position in the
Scheldt ; and Prussia in the fortresses of Belgium, until the
final arrangement of the complicated affairs of that country
can be accomplished :

BRUSSELS, APRIL 9.
M. Firmin Rogier, Secretary of the Legation at Paris, who returned
to Brussels a few days ago, set out again late last night, for Paris, on an
extraordinary mission, as the bearer of clear and precise questions from
out Cabinet to that of the Palais Royal.
We learn, from good authority, that the Government will blwrdy
make a call on the volunteers. They will be formed into eight batta-
lions, which will be organized immediately, and sent to the depots
formed near the points threatened.
The following paragraph is in the Ec/aireur :-4 The partition
of Belgium is at length decided—a new Protocol, signed by
the Five Powers, has at length been received at the office
of our Minister for Foreign affairs, which renews in the face of Europe
the infamous crime committed in the last century against Poland. Ac.
cording to this protocol, Hainault, Namur, and Brussels, are adjudged
to France, the two Flanders (East and 'West) Nfaestricht and Luxent.
burg, are replaced under the yoke of Holland, and the province of
Liege is assigned to Prussia.
Orders have been given to send artillery to Luxemburg.
Three Cabinet messengers have passed through this city, all coming
from Paris, with dispatches for Antwerp.
One of our Journals says that General Bellied left this city yesterday,
and that Lord Ponsonby will also soon leave us.
It is affirmed that serious troubles have broken out at Lodelinsart.
A large quantity of powder and cannon balls arrived here yesterday
from Mons, on its way to Antwerp.
On the sth, in the evening, there were riots at Arlon ; the mob pro-
eeeded to the house of M. Despres, suspected of Orangism, who was
forced to fly.
It is reported that a merchant at Mons has received a letter from
Luxemburg, announcing that the troops of the German confederation
entered the Grand Duchy, on the 6th ;—to arms ! to arms ! this is the
only cry we can utter if the news is true.-06server of Hainault.
Several persons concerned in pludering the house of Mad. Coppeau,
at Namur, have been crested.

Baussics, Aram 11.--We hear from Mayanee that Belgium is
finally excluded from thenavigation of the Rhine by the port of Antwerp.
Aletter from Aix-la.Chnpelle of the Bth April says "It is not the
Land wehr of the Rhenish Provinces that has been ordered to be ready to
take the field by the 16th inst. as was reported, but only the reserve of
the 16 h division which makes part of the contingent of the army of the
Confederation, which has been called out. It Is assembling at Treves.
The Belgian refugees, among whom is General Vandersniissen, re-
ceived orders yesterday to quit the lett bank of the Rhine.
BM. &MIA, Arm 12.
Count Felix de fderode has written a letter to the Minister of the
Interior, expressing his wish that, the sum of sixteen thousand
florin, which is allotted to him as one of the members, the late
provisional Government may be employed in the erection of a monu-
ment in the Place des Martyrs.
There has been some agitation at Tirlemont, which happily has not
been followed by any serious consequences. Some persona were Ms.