Star.
London, England, 1830-11-29 00:00:00

COAL-EXCHANGE, Nov. 29.

Only fourteen ships were entervd for sale to-day, and the supply of
Sunderland Coal was small at market. Newcastle Coal was plentiful.
The Coal Exchange was well attended by buyers.
Ships arrived during the month
During the week
Best Wallsend Coals

Other sorts ..
Ships at )larket, ini.

TII E EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29.

This day despatches addressed to Lord Viscount P Al•
M EnsvoN, were received at the Foreign Office, in Downing-
street, from their Excellencies Lord STUART DE ROTHSA Y,
our Ambassador at Paris ; and from Sir CHARLES BA 00T,
our Ambassador at the Hague.

This afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was
held at the Foreign Office, attended by all the Members,
who continued in deliberation for a considerable period.

The intelligence received this morning is confirmatory of
our previous statements of the military preparations on the
Continent. It appears now certain, that in the Prussian
Rhenish Provinces, all the artillery
.are put on the war
footing. There are now thirty-five thousand men under
orders, and which are still further to be reinforced by the
troops of Brandenburgh, under the command of Prince
Wit.l.l Ahl . These formidable armies are to form forty-five
battalions of infantry; forty-eight squadrons of cavalry;
nine battalions of artillery, horse ; and forty-six foot.

Accounts from the Lower Elbe, of the 14th instant, re-
ceived this day, confidently assert, that the Emperor of
RUSSIA has addressed circulars to the different European
Cabinets, calling their serious attention to the revolutionary
spirit, which agitates the West of Europe ; and strongly
urging the absolute necessity of adopting peremptory mea-
sures, to repress what he calls " this evil."

Private advices from Amsterdam, received this morning,
confirm the acceptance of the armistice, by the King of
HOLLAND ; as well• as the raising of the blockade of the

Scheldt, in consequence of which tho Dutch funds have im-
proved one and a half per vent.

At n late hour of the day, we have perused other private
letters from Holland, which are at variance with the above.
They affirm that the King has broken the armistice. It is
further insisted on, that a Dutch frigate, of thirty-six guns,
,and a brig are off Ostend, and had just ordered a pilot-boat,
to return into the port. It is inferred from this, that the
Kt KG, having learned the exclusion of his family for ever
from the throne, had recourse again to these extraordinary
measures, and adopted the blockade.
A rumour is current in the City, stating that when the
estafette was leaving Paris, an Envoy from Belgium had
just arrived, to invite the son of the KING of the French
as Monarch of Belgium. It was added, that three German
Princes had already refused that honour. These rumours,
however, want confirmation.

The French papers and private letters which we have re-
ceived this morning, are all fully confirmatory of the war-
like intelligence, of which we have every day, since last
Wednesday, communicated, more or less, to our Readers, and
%Lich we hinted at the time, appeared to afford grounds for
apprehension, that Europe was not yet sure of escaping the
" War of Principle", of which a deceased oratorical States-
man spoke some time ago, in such ominous language. It
now appears, that the War Department in the French Govern-
ment, is in great activity ; that the energy of the celebrated
Marshal Sou LT is displaying itself in organising and dispos-
ing the forces of France; while Gen. GEn♦ RD, who was too
blind to operate at the Bureau as the Minister of War, ha
gone on a Military Commission, to inspect the fortresses of
the Northern Frontiers.

Our private correspondent in Paris, whose letter we do
not io-day publish, because we find some of the details he
has given us, have already found their way into our columns,
represents that the warlike sensation inParis is quite charac-
teristically perspicuous. Like the war-horse in the sublime
description of Job, " which smelleth the battle afar off, and
paweth the ground of the valley, rejoicing in its strength,"
so, if it will not be considered descending in poetry, does
he describe the mustachioed frequenters of the Caffes and
Palais Royal, bustling with almost all the martill con-
fidence of a commencing campaign. The French are
decidedly military in national character; and we
make no doubt, whatever the real interests of France may
indicate, as sound policy, that a war would not generally
there be unpopular. Here, we could point out some smug
sober-looking citizens on 'Change, who would not sigh over
the ruinous contingency; but there, the number is undoubt-
edly much more numerous.
Is there really any chance of another continental coali-
tion, to repress the progress of social improvement ? Is it
possible that the Governments of Russia, Prussia, and
Germany, will combine once more, to give to the
cause of revolution, all the rapidity—the unconquer-
able energy—which it could not fail to acquire, by
the union and exasperation of the myriads governed,
against the hundreds who govern ? Will they, by such
insane policy,break up the social establishments of their own
States, and endanger those of all the civilized world ? These
are important questions, and not, we must confess, so as-
suredly to be answered in the negative, as they probably
would have been two months ago.

The point of danger—the place whore tho gun-
powder appears to be depositing —is Belgium ; and
every spectator of what has taken place there, must
attribute the present hazardous collision of parties, to the
infatuated conduct of the Netherland Government. We said
very early, what we shall now repeat, that the King of
HOLLAND was well known, by every person acquainted
with the affairs of Holland, and who had business to trans-
act at his Court, to be a weak, conceited, obstinate prince
—a man who, from good intention, took a most active, and
decided part, in the details of his Government ; and who
had fallen, from the want of a capacious intellect, too much
into the narrow sentiments of those around him,—that
there were other safe ways of governing, than that
of accomplishing the greatest happiness among
the whole mass of his people. We have no doubt of his
good intention, that he did not perceive that he was inflict-
ing avoidable evils on any of his subjects ; but he is a man
of detail, and not a man of generalization; and, we believe,
it has been characteristic of his whole Government.

As an example, let us revert, once more, to the legislative
wisdom displayed in the Colonies of the Netherlands. Java,
that " jewel of great price," became, under his government,
a source of internal crime, and, to the European country,
of serious injury. And what was the cause? For
the evident and avowed reason, that Java was
governed, not for the good of the people of the island ;
but for the good, as it was ignorantly thought, of
the merchants of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and the other
commercial towns of Holland. It was a milch-cow to be
milked—forgetting that the health and happiness of the cow
was necessary to make it continue its produce. What is the
consequence of all the King's trading companies and milking
machinery?—that the poor innocent inhabitants of that
island, have been forced to make inefficient and inexpedient
warfare. They have been conquered by the craft,
not the courage, of Dutchmen ; and our own
very last week's intelligence, from that quarter,
tells of the inglorious stratagem by which the principal na-
tive Sovereign of the island has been kidnapped, and is now
on board of' a ship in the pestiferous harbour of Batavia.
Does that victory restore to Java its prosperity, or to Hol-
land its valuable commerce ? Such has been the Dutch
policy at a distance from Europe ; and if there be any
that .can doubt the Belgians were without a cause of
revolt, all we can say is, they have not taken the pains
to investigate. We cannot here undertake to enlighten
them ; but let them read the last numbers of thole able
truth-telling periodics—the Westminster and Foreign Re-
views.

The appointment of a Sovereign for the new Baleen
State, appears to us a question not unlikely to lead to Con-
tinental war, in which, however, we trust the wisdom of
our Government will not involve this nation.