Star.
London, England, 1831-06-13 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

The Council was assembled yesterday several times, and
the diplomatic corps had to assist this morning at a confer-
ence bold at the house of 51. Casimir Perier, in order to
know what part they should take towards Belgium. A most
strange thing, the occupation of the Belgian provinces by the
troops of Proula,and of the Germanic Confederation, is not
that which the most Mani our ministry, although it would
still repulse such a neighbourhood with some energy. Ano.
cher danger appears to it much more formidable—it is the
invasion of France by the Republic, of which the focus is ro
longer at the Luxembourg, nor at the Place Vendome, but
in Belgium.
Already the ministry fear that theßelgian volunteers,which
are to the numberof 15,000, will march towards our frontiers,
tricoloured Sags dying in front, and that they will seize cur.
cessively upon all our cities by proclaiming a republican
government. It is very seriously that the friends of the
ministry speak of this project. It remains to be known
whether our ministers will allow themselves to be canes in
the snare, and whether, in the fear of a possible republic,
they will suffer to be established at our gates a royalty really
inimical to us. This evening, however, the ministry feels
the necessity of an explanation upon the affairs of Belgium,
and the .Ifonfieser contains an article upon the subject.—
Courrier Francais.

A question of limits becomes secondary after a question
of independence. A natural limits:ion presented itself. It
was the situation which Belgium occupied before her re-
union to France, that is to say, there was assured to her the
same territory which she possessed at the epoch when she
was placed under the Austrian Administration. The map
of 1790 becomes then naturally that of 1831: for, between
these two epochs, it was not Belgium, It was a French Pro.
elate, afterwards a Dutch Province. It was truly re-
establishing Belgium upon these bases. We should ex-
pect assistance on the part of the Belgians. But they
raise pretensions much beyond the basis of which they
could however contest the political equity. The Belgians
have claimed successively Luxembourg, the totality of Lim.
bourg, end the left bank of the Scheldt. Invoking conces-
sions made On 1796, not by Belgium, who did nothing for
herself, but by France, who came to aggrandise herself. We
hope then always, and with a confidence which proves to the
Belgian nation the esteem of the French government; we
hope that new ways of accommodation, facilitated by the
unanimity of Europe, sod by France, will soon be opened.
In the interim, General Billiard will, u well as Lord Pon-
sonby, quit a city when their voices cease to be listened to.
We then believe that the Belgians, in place of listening to
passion alone, will return, ere long, to more wise sentiments,
and recognise the necessity, es well as the convenience for
themselves, of a conduct more moderate, more equitable, and
more prudent.—Moniesser.
We learn, that on the 7th, the Regent of Belgium, in con.
sequence of the official notification of the last aseasorandum
of the conference of London, issued a Decree for arming and
raising all the:men comprised in the first baud of the Civic
Guard. That measure will extend the disposable military
forces of Belgium to 160,000 combatants. We know that
already the first ban of the Civic Guard of the Province of
Luxembourg, was called out by a Decree of the 16th April.
When the Regent rendered his last Decree of calling out the
Civic Guard, the refusal of Prince Leopold, and the ulterior
decisions of the conference of Londba, were not then known
at Brussels. The arming of the Civic Guard at Antwerp.
of West Flanders. of Liege, of Limbourg, and the other pi,-
vino. was then but a measure of precaution ordained, not
only by the lest messorandoen of the Plenipotentiaries at
London, but again by the daily egressions of Holland upon
a:great part of the Belgian frontier. But, at the moment
when we write, the population, anticipating the orders of its
II Government, run without doubt to arms, and dispose them•
selves to repulse the Dutch beyond the limits traced by the
deceitful armistice which diplomacy had Imposed en them.
May the Belgians be convinced, that it is but In war, and in
an immediate and vigorous war, that they will find the it-
d/pada:we which they have been in pursuit for this eight
mootbs t Near did liberty lad as asylum In the midst of
a people by the aid of diplomatic notes I the ammo gooe
ca obtain it. The Courier of tamionow will bring u

w itbout doubt, the order for the recommencing of hostilities."
—La Revolution.

POLAND.

FRONTIERS OF POLAND, 11Iar 31.--The loss of the
Sauk of the 26th is imputed to General Uminskl : he
has been recalled. The Poles who are slightly wounded
,re transported to Warsaw ; as to the others, tbey remain
n the hospitals. They labour without ceasing to fortify
Warsew, and the cnvirons.—Gazelle de Pewee.

We have before us the Gazette de Warsaw of the 30th
Intl 31st of May, arrived by extraordinary express. We
!lave received from Warsaw the news of the expedition of
Cuneral Gielgud, who has entered Lomas, driving before
the division of General Sicken, whose troops had burnt
part of the city. The corps of the Polish army marched
:toward, and the Lithuanian insurrection will, without
.loubt, acquire the greatest det elopement possible. The
;nsurrection does not take a less rapid stride in Podolia,
lnd in the Ukraine. Count Wlodzimi, Potocki, and several
lames, the most distinguished of Poland, are placed at the
;lead of that movement. They do not speak of the corps of
!he army of Diebitsch, of which the operations can decide
from one moment to another the fate of Poland. We shall
have, without doubt, still some days of uncertainty, during
which false hopes and fears will not be spared us.—Le
Temps.