Star.
London, England, 1830-12-15 00:00:00

TII i EVENING STAR.

LON DUN.

WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 15.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
In reply to our Correspondent, we shall endeavour to.morrow to give
a full account of Mr.Owcn's public meeting.

This day the King held a Levee at St. James's Palace,
after which there was a Council. This being the last
Levee till after the Christmas recess, the attendance of
Nobility and Gentry to take leave of his M•JESTY, was
very considerable.

THE REVENVE.—The Gentlemen in the different offices
are busily employed at present, in preparing their
Accounts of the Revenue, preparatory to the Quarterly
Return to be made on the sth day of January next.
In the meantime it is gratifying to state, that the Customs
have been, for some time, in a train of progressive improve-
ment ; and that the Excise return will chew a considerable
increase.

We shall now condense, according to our usual system
all the continental intelligence of importance which we have
been able to collect this morning, in addition to that which
will be found in detail in the other departments of our paper.
Our readers will perceive, that on the affairs at Warsaw,
what we communicated yesterday, and the day before, con-
tained all the leading facts, some more details of which %velm
now laid before them. The mails of yeterdayproducednothing
of interest on the affairs of Belgium; and thoEstafetle received
last night from Paris, has been equally unproductive of im-
portant intelligence.—There is an article in La Quasi-
dirnne, and, probably, in other journals, which states
that a deputation from the Provisional Authorities at
Warsaw, bad waited on Prince CONSTANTINE, demand-
ing of him to acknowledge the independence of Poland ;
to which deputation the Duke had replied, that his Powers
did not extend to the satisfaction of such a demand. We
can hardly t.Lisk it possible, that the insurrectionists would
be so ill advised, as make such a demand in such a quarter;
and as it is quite at variance with the other intelligence
from the same place, we must suppose it unfounded. No-
thing however yet exhibits, au fond,the objects of the present
insurrection ; but, indeed, whatever be its early objects, they
are likely to change materially, according to the success of
the cause.

We have this morning been favoured with the perusal of
a private letter from Brussels to a gentleman, well known
on 'Change, which states that Lord PorisoNllT had, at the
date of the letter, been several times in conference with the
Diplomatic Department of the Belgian Government ; but
what takes place at such meetings, it is needless to re-
mark, is not discoverable to the public—except by con-
jecture on what occurs after. It was believed that
the difficult international discussions, about the occupation
and futt.re destiny cf the Duchy of Luxembourg, was to take
place in this country.
This letter, likewise, mentions as a fact, that 18,000
troops had assembled in the vicinity of Lille. It is likewise
stated that, when the insurrection at Warsaw became known
to the Government at Berlin, orders were immediately issued
to disarm theLandwehr.This last piece of intelligence we think
highly probable; but we doubt much whether the order had
had not preceded the Polish insurrection ; as we are con-
vinced a paragraph to that effect appeared anterior to it, in
the foreign papers, and which was quoted in the STAR.
It may, after all, probably turn out, that the continental ar-
maments, as well as this dis-armament—if we may be ex-
cused for a new word— have arisen from apprehensions, per-
haps founded on no unambiguous symptoms, that internal
commotions were becoming probable occurrences,which com-
bined precautionary measures could alone prevent. We wonder
we do not hear of preventative sham-plots and executions—
part of the nefarious system of Government to which the
world has been so much used under the old arrangements
of tyranny.

There is a general expression in the letter, to which we are
indebted for the information we are now giving, that the
King of HOLLAND, since he has heard of the Polish Revo-
lution, has shewn a tendency to become a little more accom-
modating in his views ; and that the arrangement, with his
late Belgian subjects are possible to be terminated, without
further warfare.

From France, we shall, after to-day, look with anxiety
for intelligence, as the trials of the Ministers were to com-
mence this morning; and probably some idea may soon be
formed of the temper of the French population, on an occa-
sion so likely to call forth its too frequent impatient
ebullition.

In directing the attention of our readers to the proceed-
ings in parliament last night, we have to point oat the ob-
servations of Lord Kiva, upon presenting a petition on
the subject of tithes. His Lordship declared, that tithes
were a species of impost in every respect a public nuisance—