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

FR A NCE.

The Ministry seek to persuade the electors, that
the succession of the peerage will be renounced ;
and that a combination will be formed, which will
partake at once of the succession and non-succes-
sion, but which is neither the one nor the other.
The electors will not be deceived ; and, faithful to
the maxim, that foresight is the mother of safety,
they enact from the candidates the formal renun-
ciation of the principle of succession ; and revise
the measure at a later period, and come and propose
to us to maintain the aristocratic chamber : the
electors will take measures to repulse them."—Le
National. _

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AU kinds of alarming reports were set afloat yes-
terday. The news of the unexpected arrival of
Marshal Soult, and of hostile resolutions on the part
of our Cabinet, engrossed the public mind. Upon
making inquiry in the proper quarter, we find that
the first statement is false. The second, probably,
is also without foundation.—Le Temps.
The secretary of the Duke de Montemart arrived
at Paris from St. Petersburgh in the course of the
night, and the Duke himself is said to be hourly
expected. It was remarked, that on 'Change yes-
terday a great quantity of rentes were sold on ac-
count of Russian houses. On the 30th ult. Gen.
Romanow, of the Emperor of Russia's staff, arrived

at Amsterdam, from St.Petersburgh and Hambo g
The Secretary of the Spanish Embassy at Vi-
enna arrived on Thursday night, at the Spanibli
embassy at Paris, on his way, in great haste, to
Madrid.—Journal du Commerce.

The Bourse has been violently agitated for the
last two days. Events which approach and com-
plicate more and more will show to minds the most
blind, the result where the sad policy of th.:
Perier Ministry has conducted us, and the annilii•
lation of those illusions with which we have been
entertained for the last three months upon our
situation with respect to Europe. War is at
our gates. What arm will be sufficiently pow_
erful to turn it off,—what mind sufficiently sub-
tle to disguise the imminence ? Ministers of the
13th of March, what compensation will you offer
us for the principles of July sacrificed to the Holy
Alliance— for Belgium delivered by your hands,
Poland abandoned, the patriots of Italy immolated
by the executioners of Austria—for having had faith
in solemn engagements which you have foresworn
Behold Belgium at war with the confederates of
London ; the fatal sentence is passed, and England
is charged with the execution. Four frigates, tell
steam boats, and one hundred transports, have
sailed from Portsmouth for the mouth of the
Scheldt. Notwithstanding what does the Perki
ministry ? Docile to the British word of command.
it breaks with its hand the weak ties which still
attach Belgium to France. Lord Ponsonby is recalled
to London, ho submits to the reprimand of the Con-
gress for having sojourned at Brussels some days
after the resolutions of the Belgian Congress upon
the question of the limits, and General Belliard,
whose orders are to imitate, in every point, the
conduct of the English diplomatists, is on his road
to return to Paris. Yesterday evening, at the
conclusion of the council of Ministers, M. Lehon,
envoy from Belgium, was written to from M.
Sebaatiani, who notified to him that his diplomatic
functions had ceased, and that he would no longer
be recognised as an official character. From such
fine preliminaries, there remains for us nothing
else than to realise the threat of the protocols,
and to direct upon the Belgian frontier our contin-
gent of 30,000 men ; there will be found, without
doubt, some Wellington quite ready to take the com-
mand. How fine it will be to see French valour again
display itself in the fields of Jemappe to convert a
brother nation to the religion of the Hely Alliance !
This will not be one of the wars of principle, which
embroiled us with absolute Kings, and which left
us no other alli ince than that of the people : it will
be a war to place the keys of her frontiers in the
hands of a British goaler— to a crowned Sir Hud-
son Lowe. It remains to be seen whether the
French soldiers will be found to have much ardour
for such a crusade. The Belgians will come to
meet them, presenting arms, chanting patriotic
airs, and displaying the colours of France.—
Journal du Commerce.