Star.
London, England, 1831-06-03 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

Letters from Brussels arrived this day, announce
that the Congress appears unanimously decided to
reject the last protocol of London. Since the com-
munication which has been made to the Congress
by Lord Ponsonby, the election of the Prince of
Saxe-Coburg has become a very secondary affair
in Belgium.—La National.
We have never ceased to say, and we shall never
cease to repeat, that Belgium is the plaything of
Europe. From the day when Fiance ventured in
the track of the restoration, when, contradicting its
origin--its promises—the government born of the
barricades made alliance with regal Governments
from that day, Belgium renounced all chance
of seeing herself voluntarily admitted into the
grand European family. It =is already more
than six months since we said : " By the single
fact of the revolution of Brussels, Belgium will
find herself out of the pale of European States ;
if she deer not force Europe to recognise
her young nationality, Europe will constrain her
again to enter under the yoke of the House of
Orange. A single Belgian journal adopted then
our views ; all the other organs of the press
of Brussels placed their hopes in France, in Eu-
rope. These illusions appear at last to be de-
stroyed, and there is now unanimity in Belgium,
unanimity of indigtation against the double policy
of the Palais-Royal, and the machiavelian ef-
frontery of the conference of London.—La Revo-
lution.

The letter of Lord Ponsonby bears its fruits: all
is deferred for Belgium, and consequently for
France, and consequently for Europe. The positive
promises which we had made our neighbours had
raised their hope ; already they believed they were
on the point of entering the port so much desired,
they smiled at the future 1 and behold they again
are thrown into a sea of doubt and uncertainty !
All the words given were but a deception ; and
for the twentieth time, this unhappy nation has
been played with. What has been the result
of this odious manoeuvre ? A general indigna-
tion in all the population, and in Congress.
Private letters inform us, that in consequence
of reading that inconceivable dispatch, not only
have they decided to adjourn the nomination of a
Sovereign, but it has been proposed to go and
seize by main force the contested territory. The
assembly will, it is said, in the next sitting, be
called to pronounce upon that question, and, if
the disposition of minds is not changed, it is
probable that it will be resolved on in an affirma-
tive sense. " When the possession shall become a
fact " they write us, " it is probable that it will soon
become a right." Such is the feeling which prevailed
at Brussels after the sitting of the 28th. We are igno-
rant what will be the consequence, we dare not even
predict it. But we comprehend well that the Belgian
people will require, before all, to see the limits
fixed. If the great Powers wish for peace, as
they pretend, they should, in recognizing Belgium,
have granted it the conditions of its existence ; we
will not say its natural frontiers ; otherwise tbe re-
cognizance was illusory. France must wish it still
more than the other states. As to the British Ca-
-1 binet, its interest is entirely different : it does not
desire that Belgium should exist by itself. It
knows perfectly well, that if that country, governed
by an Englishman, has need of support, it is in
England that it will seek it. But if the Ministry
of Lord Grey acts in the sense of its position, we
hope that the French Ministry will be faithful to
ours. In order that the Belgians may be a sure
ally to us, it is necessary that they should be in-
dependent, and in order to be independent, it is
necessary that they should be strong, and acquire
all their developement ; the government of Louis
Philippe, without doubt, will not forget this."—
Constitutionnel.

POLAND.
WARSAW, May 23.—Extract of a letter re-
ceived yesterday morning from an English surgeon,
who is at present in Warsaw :—" It is now 11
o'clock, and it is necessary that this should be put
into the Post• office before 12, in order to secure
its arrival in eight day ; as we have only the post
once a week, by Hamburg, for England. I think
there are about 15,000 wounded, and confined by
the cholera, which disease was caught from the
Russians, but I am most happy to tell you it has
stopped in its progress, and is not thought so much
of as I am given to imagine rumour has propa-
gated out of Warsaw. Our hospitals are very
numerous, and are conducted with the same ad-
vantages and comforts as any in England.
You may depend upon the information of the
movement of our army in the English newspapers,
especially when copied from the Warsaw Gazette,
but intelligence by the Prussian Gazette is almost
always exaggerated and delayed. Diebitsch is
still at Siedlec, and our Commander-in-chief was
before him up to last Friday week, when he moved
in a direction North, and passed through Frage to
Ostrolenka, towards the Imperial Russian Guards,
who have occupied a position North of Poland
Proper. I have been informed this morning by the
president of our medical department, and the infor-
mation goes pretty general, that our brave army bas
gained another victory, by either routing or taking
12,000 prisoners, and 20 pieces of cannon, by a
battle which was fought at Tykocsyn. As yet

none of the wounded have been brought here, but
our hospitals are expected to be filled by tbem
hourly. Tykoczyn is a town on the frontier of
Lithuania, where the resistance was made to our
army in attempting to reach Byalystock, the first
drincipal town immediately in the province of
Lithuania ; and it is universally rumoured through
Warsaw that our army is now safely there, and
which has been its object, in order to direct the
insurgents from Byalstock• The Commander will
immediately proceed to Wilma, the capital of Li-
thuania.

ANOTHER LETTER, WARSAW, MAT 23.—0 n
account of General Skrzynecki having requested
the Government not to publish his reports for ten
or twelve days, we are without official informa-
tion, but for certain I know that the Poles under
General Skrzynecki have already taken Ostro-
lenka, which was fortified by the Russians ; and I
know it from a good source that we have also
Lomza, and that near Tychoczyn General Skrzy-
necki had an engagement with the Imperial Guards,
and had defeated them. This movement of General
Skrzynecki appears to be to cut off the supplies which
the Russians drew from Prussia into Ostrelenka
this he seems to have accomplished, and now, it is
very probable, he is going into Lithuania : his head-
quarters are at Szczuczyn, and his advanced posts
at Tykoczy n. Diebitsch's head-quarters are at
Sokolow. All this news, except that about Ostro-
leaks, is not official. Our last news from General
Chrzanowski was, that he was at Old Zamosc, a
few miles from the fortress ; but it is supposed he
is going into Volhynia. There is not bow a very
strong Polish force on the Minsk side ; but from
their positions being very strong, they are enabled
to keep the Rursiuns at bay. The Russians at-
tacked them a few days ago, but were driven back.
The cholera morbus has, I believe, entirely or
very nearly left both the army and Warsaw, but I
believe there are some indications of it at Kalisch.
The Russians still commit the most dreadful ex-
cesses. I will relate one, which an eminent phy-
sician vouches for the truth of : it will show you
what barbarians the Russians are. A short time
since the Poles were in possession of a village near
Wengrow, and were informed by some peasants
where sixty cossacks were to be found, and through
this information they were taken : the Poles quitted
the village, and in a few days after the Russians
returned, and found three of the peasants who gave
that information, and who were then remaining at
their homes ; the circumstance of their having
given the information to the Polish soldiers was
made known to the Russians by some Jews : the
Russians seized them, laid them down on the floor,
with their arms and legs stretched out, so as to
give them great pain, and then beat them with the
knout till all three died.

I saw yesterday two squadrons of lancers, all
young noblemen and gentlemen from Gallicia, who
have mounted and equipped themselves at their own
expense, and take no pay. They are mounted on
beautiful horses.