Star.
London, England, 1831-06-16 00:00:00

LONDON.
THURSDAY. JUNE 16.

Accounts from Antwerp this morning, state that
a firing of musketry took place at intervals all day,
on Monday, and was renewed on the morning of
Tuesday. At half-put one o'clock, there was a smart
firing all along the quay of the town, and it was
kept up with great spirit on both sides ; but
the fire was principally returned from the
Tote de Flandres, and the Dutch gun•boats.—
Three twelve pounders were also fired from
the latter upon a Belgian vessel, trying to
force a passage. The firing ceased at 11 o'clock,
upon some arrangement being entered into, between
(ion. de Tilly, the Minister of War, who arrived
from Brussels, and General Chass4. The town was
left perfectly tranquil, and order again restored ; no
lives have been lost, and a few only slightly
wounded.

A gentleman who arrived from Antwerp this
morning, represents the above affair in a more seri-
ous light ; he states, that many were killed and
carried off privately. It is supposed that fifteen
or twenty thousand persons have left Antwerp.—
There are reports of disturbances at Ghent.

The Dutch and Belgians, if not as above stated
in actual war, are preparing for hostilities, the
mediators having obtained time for each to enable
itself to indict on the other the greatest mischief.
The mediators, it seems, will not recognize
Prince Lzoroz.n, except under the conditions of
their protocols ; and we take it upon ourselves to
state, that no Government could exist a month in
Belgium, which sanctioned the Dutch-occupation
of both sides of the Scheldt, the grand out-
let of the Belgic Provinces. The people, too,
of Limburgh, Luxemburgh, and Maeatricht, have
made common cause with the rest of the Provinces,
and how is a separation of such identity of inte-
rests to be effected? If the Belgians are true as
the Poles to one another, they need fear nothing
from the mercenaries of Foreign Courts ; yet it is
most afflicting that the only alternative is one of I
blood. The quiet submission of six millions of
people to the dictation of a majority of adverse
mediators is out of the question ; and if, as re-
ported, the Ministers of England and France dis-
sented, the Protocols cannot have bad their
apparent sanction.

The intelligence from Poland to-day, continues
to be satisfactory. There has been some treason,
or some unworthy feeling at work, on the part of
the Military Governor of Warsaw; and tritINSILI,
the commandetof one of the corps of the army.—
In popular Governments, where men have equal
pretensions, such differences are unavoidable ; but
in this case, the obnoxious persons have been re-
moved from command.

Every account proves the enormous losses in
magazines, suffered by the Russians, from
SizavniEClEllll expedition, and also the severe
loss which DIEBITSCH suffered in his attacks, on
the bridge of Ostrolenka. Several regiments ap-
pear to have been mowed down by the grape-shot
of the Polish artillery; while DI EBITSCH was
forcing them onward by grape-shot from the
rear ! But, by a refinement of barbarity, not
matched in modern warfare, he forced the Polish
Jew inhabitants of Ostrolenka, to repair the
bridge, under the fire of the Polish artillery,
by which hundreds of these unfortunate men
were destroyed. He seems determined to outvie
Azvz, SUw•RRoi, and BLUCHER !

GIELGUD NA CHLAPOWSKI are progressing
into Lithuania, and have gained various consider-
able advantages over the surprised Russian corps ;
while they appear to be joined by thousands of the
inhabitants. We may soon expect to hear of
them at Vilna, and on the Dwina.

We have this day the gratification of being able
to turn from the disgusting and semi-barbarous pa
litics, of the feudal and Lordly Courts of the Eu-
ropean Continent, to the glorious picture of national
prosperity and domestic happiness enjoyed by our
trans-Atlantic brethren, who, worthy of their sires,
are realising the principles of HAIePDsr,
MIL-
TON, and SIDNEY. They escaped the VlM-
sallage of the egotistical and greedy Bo-

ronglunongers, in 1776 and 1783, and we be-
hold the glorious results. Would to GOD that we
too, had, at the same time, had the equal good for-
tune to emancipate ourselves from the same
thraldom. We should then have saved our country
from the foul disgrace of mortgaging all its estates
for eight hundred millions, and spending two
thousand millions to arrest the march'of Liberty
in Europe ; rivers of human blood, in the cause
of unprincipled glory, would have been spared ;
and instead of toiling to pay iaxes, and maintain
the aggrandisement of boroughmongers, our in-
dustry would have placed us oil a pinnacle of civi-
lization, never before realized by human nature.
Do not let us envy the United States ; but after
our expected emancipation, let us imitate them in
wisdom and policy, and prove that we are of one
family with kindred spirits.
It appears by official returns that America ex-
ported last year to the amount of seventy-four
millions of dollars, chiefly native productions; and
imported seventy-one millions, giving employment
to 967,227 tons of American shipping; while the
entire tonnage of the United States is now
1,260,797, or above half that of the United King-
dom, which is about 2,200,000.
Further, that the population from. 1820 to 1830,
hes increased from 9,637,299 to 12,976,649, or a
full third, chiefly in the Mississippi and commer-
cial states ; proving tfi'e astonishing and porten-
tous immigration from the ill-governed states of
Europe, on which we may incidentally remark,
that we never hear of any immigrating to them !

A necessary evil, but provident in the state of
the world, and while the Boroughmongers ruled in
the British Parliament, has been the creation of a
Navy ; and hence we learn, that the States have
now in ordinary, 13 sail of heavy ships of the line,
and 17 heavy frigates, besides sloops, &c. &c.
The introduction of Steam Navigation renders
their great Rivers equivalent to Canals, and this im-
mense advantage is their boast ; because they claim
for their ingenious Ft: vrow the first realisation of
that mode of Navigation.
We confess we rejoice in this external show of
prosperity, in a people who speak and cultivate our
language, and with whom we claim common ances-
try ; but we rejoice more to see such prosperity ac-
companied by advances in all the arts of life—in
freedom from public debt—in exemption from taxes
—in the superabundance of all the necessaries of
life—and in the perfect enjoyment of civil and reli-
gious liberty.

Six months ago, we could not so have rejoiced,
without repining, that the mother country did not
enjoy the same advantages ; but we now cease to
repine, since, in the Remise BILL, we have a
confident assurance, that the obstructions to our
equal advantages will now speedily be re-
moved ;—and when removed, and the indus-
try of the country has sea-mom, and its genius
fair play, we shall then be able to reunite
internal and individual comtprt, with all the external
display that wisdom demands. The incubus on
Britain has been the rotten Boroughs, and the close
Corporations; and the malign influence of these
being destroyed, and the genuine intelligence of
the country being rendered egective in its legisla-
ture and magistracy, we shall have nothing either
to regret or envy in the prosperity of other
countries.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CIAXIC.

Owing to the express from Paris bringing the
French Funds lower, our market is rather heavy.
Consols, which left off yesterday 83 1 1, opened
at 83 1 ; at present they are 83 I.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, which were 83j for the account, re-
ceded to 83 ; at present they are 83 to I.

FOUR OCLOCK.

STOCK Excessrae.—Bank Stock. —. Three per Cent.
lied. 82i 83. Three ter Ct. Console, shut. These sod
a Half per Cent. 181 a, 90. Three and a Half per
Ct. Red. 110 e 89j 90. Three and a Half per Cent. New,
shut. Four per Ct. illo6, 913 i. Long Annuities, Jan.
1960, Annuities, October 1869, —. India Stock, —;
ditto Ronde, 1 preen per. £lOOO Exchequer Bills, 11 12 ;
1.600 ditto, 11 12 ; £lOO and A2OO ditto. 13. Coueole foe
Account, 83* j 3.

We hear that the Belgian Deputies are very ob-
stinate in their interviews with Prince Coburg and
the Ministers ; they threaten to clothe the Belgian
troops in the same uniform as the French troops,
and declare Belgium a department of France.
The French Papers state, that the Polish army
sent into Lithuania is divided in three equal divi-
sions ; the first division is commanded by General
Geilgud, and has taken the road to idaryampol,
where 24,000 patriots wait them ; ~the second,
commanded by General Sierkkowski, takes
the road of Loma* to Grodno; the third is
commanded by two Generals, Dembinski and
Chlapowski, and takes the road to the right
of the forest of Bralowie, and the only Russian
troops which these corps have to encounter are three
regiments of the Imperial Guards, which are sup-
posed to be at Grodno.
Extr ct of a private letter from Koningsbourg,
recieved this morning, June 2. "The political state
of affairs in Russian-Poland is dreadful ; the insur-
rection is spreading, and the Russians have no
good troops to put it down ; and the assistance
which Russia obtains from the wild Asiatic tribes,
is of very little avail I and these hordes, who
spread their barbarity, widen the breach. The
sacrifice of money which the Russians make, is
enormous, partly on account of the cholera morbus
as well as for the safety of the country. Troops are
proceeding in every direction to the frontiers, and
especially towards Memel. At Polangen dm:cho-
lera morbus rages with the greatest fury. The
corps of Gen. Phalen has introduced it here.
The Grand Duchess Helena, who is about to-visit
Sidmouth. will be accompanied by the Countess of
Nesselrode, the wife of Russia's Prime Minister. I
Ile Duchess will have to perform quarantine for
four days in Torba.