Star.
London, England, 1831-02-07 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Lr Temps asserts that the French Government have re-
'toed to confirm the last protocol signed by Prince Talley-
-Ind and the other Ministers in London, relative to the
Arrangement of the debt of Holland and Belgium. Other
Journals say the refusal is on the line of boundary. The
following are extracts from Saturday's Paris papers:
At half-past 6 o'clock the King held a council of Mi-
nisters, which lasted till half-past 1 o'clock. After the
council the King transacted business with the Keeper of
:he Seals.
- The King gave audiences to Admiral Sir Sidney Smith,
the Abbe de Pradt, and Count de Celles.
There are accounts in town of an insurrection in Gal-
,cl.l to favour the cause of Poland.
" KING OF THE BELGIANS.
" The Government has received the following telegraphic
spatch :--
His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours was elected
Kira of the Belgians in the sitting of the National Congress
.t Brussels, on the 3d inst The Duke de Nemours obtained
•7 votes ; the Duke de Lettchtenberg, 74 ; and the Arch-
.l:,ke Charles of Austria, 21.'
" Orders had been given to the Artillery Corps, by the
)iinister of War, to prepare and equip 100 field batteries,
of six pieces of cannon each, for the end of January. These
orders having being • xecuted, Marshal Soult has just ordered
7,0 other batteries to be formed, by which the artillery will be
carried to 900 pieces of cannon, with their horses.—Journal
'll C'onancree.
The 13th article of the Constitutional Charter confers
epon the King of the French the supreme command of the
tortes by land and sea, as well as the right of declaring war
at:d making treaties of peace. It provides, after the 2d pa-
ragrqh, that' no foreign troops shall be admitted into the ser-
lee of the state, except in virtue of a specific law." It is to
conform to this article that the Ministerof War has proposed
to form a foreign legion to be employed out of the conti-
nental territory of that kingdom. France contains German,
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese refugees, which it is their
interest, as well as hers, should be reunited; the events of
ar, and even those of peace, might bring a great number
of others from the different countries of Europe. It is, as
was well said by the Minister, to listen to the voice of hu-
manity. We add, it is to follow the counsels of political
foresight, as well as to open a military asylum for patriots of
all countries, who could be distributed by nations in a le-
:ion. We applaud this thought : it is to restore to France
the honourable right of hospitality which has been contami-
::ated by the diplomatic notes of the accomplice of Venni,—
;t is to announce to the people of Europe that the sympathy
,f the French nation is not less in deeds than words.—
onstitutionnel.
" The following is from the Courrier de l'Ain:—' A
t•airier from Turin brought to Savoy on the 26th ult. the
important intelligence that the Prince de Carignan has been
acknowledged heir to the throne, has received from the King
,1 Sardinia the title of Royal Highness, and has been ap-
isointed Generalissimo of the troops, in the room of the Aus-
:inn General Antucci. This is a cheek upon Austrian in-
:'ilence, and a triumph of the national and liberal opinion of
the country. To rumours of the march of Austrian troops
towards Piedmont have succeeded reports of strict neutrality.
The disposition of the people and the army continue the same.
In Savoy there are 5,300 Piedmontese soldiers.'
" The Constitutionnet, after describing the nomination of
he Duke de Nemours, and recommending the French Go-
vernment to sanction it, as the only means of saving Bel-
gium from anarchy, proceeds thus :—" It appears almost
certain that England will not precipitate herself into an un-
just war, to violate, to the injury of her commerce and her
repose, a right which she has herself loudly proclaimed—
that of non-intervention ; and if England remain in penes,
which is the Continental Power which will dare to defy
France ? As to the rest, we throw out these reflections in
haste, and reserve ourselves until the determination of the
Cabinet of the Palais Royal shall be known."
" The Quotidienne says—' The Polish Diet sent last
month to Vienna Count Michselowsky, whose mission was
kept secret. It is asserted that this Envoy was charged to
offer the throne of Poland to the Duke de Reichstadt, who in
this case would have united Gallicia to his new States. The
Cabinet of Vienna is said to have declined the proposal, its
views respecting the Duke de Reichstadt being quite differ-
ent. This Prince, it is added, is shortly to have an important
post assigned him in the army of Italy.'
" The Augsburg Gazette states that in the Rhenish pro-
vinces a great quantity of calf-skins are being bought up for
France, probably for the purpose of making knapsacks.
" CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—Stir Ivo OF SATURDAY,
Fzs. 5.
" Presidence of Monsieur de Lessert(Vice-President.)
" The sitting commenced at two o'clock, when the Chain
ber, according to the order of the day, proceeded to the re-
ports of the commission on petitions presented to the Cham-
ber by Deputies and persons not belonging to the Parliament.
" After which is announced the nomination of a commis-
sion for the examination of the question of (amortissentent)
the sinking fund. Not a minister at half-past 2 o'clock is
in his place, perhaps to avoid a menaced intsrpellation of Mw.
Mauguin relative to the news arrived this day from Belgium,
of the nomination of the Duke de Nemours to the throne of
that country. M. Dupla enters the house looking very much
preoccupied and pale in the face. General Lamarque stalks
to his place with a large packet of papers, containing, per-
haps, his improvisation. The ministers enter at 25 minutes
to 3in the following order :—Barthe, Soult, Laffite. Ge-
neral Sebastiani arrived the sixth.
" The two or three first petitions (when the report of the
commission was read) passed without much notice; but the
deputies weighed somewhat seriously on that respecting the
liberation of transports, and the treatment of criminals im-
prisoned.
" The President announced that the Minister of War,
(Marshal Soult) for the presentation of a project of law,
would succeed at the tribune. This project was for the esta-
blishing of relief and pensions for officers and troops of the
army; likewise some innovations on the present system of
pensions for wounds, &c.
" After which the reporter of the Government Commis-
sion reed the King's ordinance on this subject. The reading
of the project of the Minister of War and the ordinance has
taken so much time that it is suspected nothing will be said
to-day upon Belgium. It is now 4 o'clock.