Star.
London, England, 1831-04-02 00:00:00

VIENNA, MARCH 19.

Reports have been received from General Baron Frimont, by which
we learn that Parma was cccupied on the 13 h by the imperial troops.
The brigade of Major-General Straboosky had moved from Piacenza for
this purpose ; and the Commander in Chief bad ordered Colonel Baron
d'Aspre to support the movementsof Major-General Straboosky, by ad-
vancing from Modena, by way of Reggio. Baron d'Aspre executed this
movement with such promptness and decision, that he was already at
the gates of Parma, at five o'clock in the morning of the 13th; and the
appearance of his first patrol of Hussars having thrown the
cowardly revolutionary Government into the greatest consternation,
and caused the National Guard to disband itself, the Colonel took
possession of the city without any resistance whatever ; and the brigade
of General S:roboosky arrived in the course of the day.
With respect to what took place in Parma, during the few last days
before the entrance of the Imperial troops, we learn that already, on
the 9th, the Provisional Government in that city gave public notice,
that it had disso!ord itself. The greatest alarm and confusion pre-
vailed in the city ; the Members of the dissolved rebel Government
attempted to take flight ; but the two carriages in which they rode were
stopped by the populace, and brought back to the palace of the Govern.
rnent, amidst cries of " Death to the traitors ! Death to the wretches
ho abandon us in Eke moment of danger!" At the same time,
some hundred young men, who thought themselves the most int.
plicitted in consequence of the part they had taken in the revolution, had
precipitately left the city, intending to take the road to Bologna. After
some parleying, the Members of the Provisional Government, who were
trembling for their lives, were released, on promising to resume their
functions; and messengers were despatched after the young men, to per-
suade them to return to Parma. They were already six Italian miles from
the city, and were at length prevailed upon to come back. On the 10th
and 11th confusion and anarchy were at their height; the city gates were
shut, but by no means for the purpose of defending it, but merely to
make it more easy for the leaders of the revolution to collect all their
horses for their flight.—Ausleian Observer, March 20.
SWIT ZRULAN n, Alsacit 19.—The General-in-Chief, by a circular
of the 6th inst. called on the Canton. speedily to organise the third con-
tingent ; that in to say. the first half of the Landwehr, conformably to
the resolution lately adopted by the diet.
Several Frenchmen of the Carlist party have lately remitted con.
siderable sums to Geneva, announcing their intention of coming them-
selves to settle there.
MUNICH, MARCH 21st..—According to the report made on
the seventeenth, by Count d'Armansperg, the Minister of Fi.
nance to the Chamber of Deputiesoespecting the Sinking Fund, the
debts of the State will be diminished by five million, of fain, and the
interest by half a million, between this time and the end of the second
financial period.
A certain number of men of every regiment, now absent on leave, are
called to their colours for the usual exercise. The new recruits are to
be immediately exercised.
The ordinary levy, to complete the army In 1831, calculated at a
sixth of the actual establishment, Is 11,912 men.--.roantal de Prank-
fere, Merck 26.

The public feelings are held in suspense by four
questions :

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1. Will the Russians prevail in Poland ?--a question
greatly dependent on the next military movements.
2. Will the public-spirited Belgic President and Con-
gress, yield to the dictation of the protocols ?—greatly de-
pendent on the impenetrable equivocations of the French
Ministers.

3. Have the Austrians been guilty of military interven-
tion, in the independent Papal States ?.—rendered uncertain
by differing statements, official in confirmation, and direct
from Bologna in contradiction.
4. Will the French government, if the Austrians have en-
tered Bologna, regard it as a declaration of war, and repel
force by force ?
All these points must be brought to an issue in the com-
ing week ; and every arrival from the Continent will
be important :—not important, however, as affecting Britain ;
but to that cosmopolite feeling, which embraces the welfare
of the whole human race; for we believe our Ministers
are too wise, and have too much respect for public opinion,
to mingle British interests with such questions. They have
been ensnared by Dutch and Belgic mediation : but we are
persuaded the honour of England will never be compromised,
by an attempt to coerce the patriotic Belgians into submis-
sion, to terms in what they appeared only as friendly arbi-
trators.

England has enough upon its hands, in adjusting the great
question of Reform—in regulating its East and West India
Interests—in correcting the vicious policy of past Adminis-
trations—in revising its Monetary System and its Legal
Practice— and in restoring such a balance of pro-
perty, as shall enable virtuous industry to live and
thrive. With such objects before them, and under a
conviction that the meddling of England in continental
affairs, would rather inflame than conciliate, it may be
hoped that our Ministers will inflexibly persevere in a policy,
which so far has given general satisfaction.

It has often been remarked, what vast evils have bee n
produced—what disputes—what sanguinary wars—have
been occasioned, from the error of not calling things by their
proper names ; and never was there, perhaps, a more signal
instance of this fertile source of human misery, than what
has occurred, on the subject which now engrosses the atten-
tion of the British nation. We do not hesitate to say,
that had not the great rule of always designating a thing
by its appropriate denomination been departed from, the
corruptions of the boroughmongering system, would not have
had existence ; or, if they had, would not have existed long,
to outrage the common sense of a naturally sober-minded
people. The particular point in mistaken nomenclature,
which has suggested this remark, is the improper practice,'
which to the present moment prevails, of denominating cer-
tain Members of Parliament representatives for certain
places, when they are really representatives for certain per-
sons ; or, if something like an hibernianism may be allowed,
representatives sometimes for themselves ! By misapplying
the proper names of certain boroughs, as the places
represented, even although it might be known that these
places were without any inhabitants, a kind of fictitious
plausible appearance of representation has been ostensibly
maintained, sufficient to conceal the delusion from the un-

observant, and baffle, by impudent assertion, the exposure
of the acute.

Let us, for instance, suppose, that it had been the practice
to designate the members for the well-known rotten
Boroughs, members for the individuals who really
nominated them to their seats, is it probable that so flag-
rant an impropriety, day by day repeated, and palpably
exposed to the popular eye, could have existed so long ?
Thus, were one of the present Honourable Members,
who are incorrectly named Representatives of Old Sarum,
addressed as the Honourable Representative for him-
self and brother, no delusion could exist; or if the repre-
sentative for Heytesbury could be designated the representa-
tive for the hon. Member's brother, could it for a moment
be supposed, that he as such, could be considered
properly representative of the people. In the same way,
the Honourable Members for Westbury should have been
denominated the Honourable Representatives for Sir MA-
NASSAII MASSEH LOPEZ, and thus the value of
their votes be made perfectly evident ; and probably his
Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, would not have con-
tinued, until this time of day, ignorant that seats in Par-
liament were bought and sold.
We hardly expect this useful, plain speaking, to become
general ; but were it so, we are sure much mischief would
be prevented.

A requisition signed by one hundred public men, with
the Duke of LEINSTER, Lord CLow cu a al-, and the bene-
volent Marquis of SLIGO at its head, has been presented to
the LORD MA von of Dublin, soliciting a public meeting in
behalf of the distressed districts of MAYO. His Lordship
has fixed on Tuesday the sth for the meeting ; and we hope
that the benevolence, which -is so striking a feature in she!
character of Irishmen, will be displayed on the occasion.
We hope also that the resolutions will distinctly explain to
the satisfaction of the public, how it happens, that in the
most fertile country in the world, which contains twenty
acres of productive land to every family, these periodical
famines occur ? No sophistry can conceal, that some
policy alien to the welfare of the population, is either
criminally, or ignorantly, or selfishly, allowed to intervene,
between the abundance of the soil and the natural wants of
the people. We conjure the meeting to determine, and
proclaim, this cause whatever it be ; and then, besides reliev-
ing the present distresses, take effectual means for prevent-
ing the recurrence of such a disgrace on the rank, property,
good-sense, and government of the country. Mayo may
want the luxuries and ornaments of civilization, without
reproach to any; but that thousands of families should be
forced into a situation, in which they have but a single chance
of providing themselves with the commonest necessary
of life, implies great culpability, or want of wisdom in those,
whose power and duty it is to take care, that the blessings of
Providence are distributed with equality, among all the
children of the common native soil.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols have been fluctuating in the course of the morn-
ing, from 771 to 771, for the account; at present they are
771 The speculators are anxiously waiting for the re-
sult of the answer of the Emperor of Austria to the French
Government, as well as a confirmation of their taking
Bologna. •