Star.
London, England, 1830-10-16 00:00:00

Under this singly condition, we think that :ho periodical press
would enjoy the following advantages :
" I. Tl.e proportional security might be furnished in immoveables,
in renter, or in cash, at the pleasure of the conductor.
"11. The jury ought to decide on all crimes and offences of the presF,
without making any distinction between complaints of the Government,
constituted bodies, or private individuals. Indeed, why should the
Chamirrs drag to their bar those who have offended them, when an at-
tack against the throne is cognizable by a jury ? Have they not equality
of power? The Chambers, like the King, should not themselves avenge
their own wrongs. It is always supposed that too much passion ac-
companies too much power.
" 3. The stamp duty should be not merely reduced, as 111. Havoux
proposes, but abolished. It is to no purpose that an orator of the left
aide has declared that the journals were .► commercial enterprise.
That is true, as far as regards those who conduct them ; but not those
who receive them.

" But would not those who conduct them gain over those who receive
them the whole amount which is paid into the Treasury in the shape
of stamp duties ?—No ; for they would lower the price of the subscrip-
tion the whole price of the stamp duty.
" Finally, the stamp-duty is collected from the subscribers : the sub.
scribers are the people. The people have more need of a press. than
the Treasury has of money, and the press is always better the cheaper
it is.

•' The industry of the mind is the least taxed of all kinds of industry,
not because it is the least productive, but because it is an industry of
the first necessity. There are some class.es of industry which are not
only not subjected to impost, but which receive encouragement. The
Treasury has given bounties of revere millions towards the cod fisheries.
We must, it is said, form sailors : that is good, but we must also form
citizens. This is so well perceived in the United States, that the news-
papers are carried by past gratuitously, in all parts of the immense ter-
ritory of that Republic, while, at the same time, they arc not subject to
any stamp-duty, nor any fiscal impost whatever.
The carrying by post should be gratuitous. On the one hand the
Treasury would thereby lose the tax for postage and distribution; but
do you not see that these encouragements of the press would give an im-
pulse to public spirit., extend the relations of commerce, multiply cor-
respondence, letters, missions, and the products of commerce ? The
Treasury would not, therefore, be altogether a loser. Let it, besides,
raise the hatchet against excessive salaries ; let it cut off the de-
vouring leprosy of sinecures and pluralities, and the deficiency of
the Treasury will be covered, and we should thereby have less abuses
and more liberties.

will now restate my proposition in figures, in order that any one
may at a glance comprehend it:
" The price of the annual subscription to a journal
at the present is . . • . . . 80f. Oc.

" The stamp and post duties are included in this ex.

pense—namely,
" Stamp duty for 360 sheets, at
7 centimes the 'heti . . 25f. 20c.
" Post duty at 5 centimes per
sheet ifie. tic.

43f. 20e.

" Remainder . . . 36f. 80c.
" Now take from this surplus the allowance made to booksellers and
the directors of post, the expenses of salaries, of office, of paper, of
printing, of folding, and of distributing, the interest of the capital laid
out, the insurance on security, the advance of stamp and post duties, the
expense of correspondence, of editing and conducting, the bad debts, and
see what remains to the undertakers of journals, and judge whether com-
petition is physically possible.
" But who suffers the most of that ?—The public.
" If on the other hand you remove the impost, you reduce nearly one
half the price of the journals, and these are what will be the effect :
"He who used not to take in a journal will have one. He who
had only one will take two. He who had only a journal of a single
will take one of a double sheet. He who had only news of politics, will
have news of the administration, of literature, of the sciences, of the
arts, of agriculture, of commerce and trade. New reading rooms
will be opened. The manufacture of paper, of ink, of types, and of
presses, will be increased. The compositors, and pressmen the
founders, the engraved, and the mechanics, will be multiplied.
The enthusiasm of system-maken, the ebullitions of Utopians,
will be exhaled by so many open pores, and will fall down consuming
MC another. The departmental press, which stopped at the burghs,
will penetrate to the viWga. The journals will descend from the hands
of the high and middling to the hands of the small proprietor • and the
people, whoee benefit should be the end of every measure, would receive
instruction conformable with their wants, and will perceive that each
condition has its rights and duties; and the poor, as well as the rich,
will not be ameliorated without being enlightened.
" But it is objected, the time has not arrived. We must wait.
Why, let me ask, should we wait ? Did those Parisians wait who
marched forward to subvert despotism, subject to a devastating dis-
charge of grape-shot? Did those intrepid Belgians wait, who, in
anotltee place, renew the prodigies of the Fiend' people, and for
whom all generous hearts beat "with sympathy and admiration ? Insti-
tutions, like fruit, should be gathered when ripe.
" France has made one step, and all the world is about to follow her.
Neither coalitions, armies, nor fortresses—neither glaciers, mountains,
nor seas, can stop the revolution of ideas ; and before a quarter of a ceu-
tury, the victories of the press will have made the tour of Europe.
" I have the honour to be, ske. . _ ..... _

" CORMENIN."

Private Letters in the Tinges.

THE Hamm, OCT. 12.
Although having some points to mention to-day, I can scarcely find
materials to form a letter from this place, so quickly after that 1 sent
you yesterday by Rotterdam.
Count Cronquembourg, the Prince of Orange's Alde-de-Camp, and
Mr. Cartwright, the British Minister just appointed to Frankfort, but
who still acts as Secretary of Embassy here, have arrived to-day from
Antwerp, and also an attache of the embassy who has been within these
three days at Brussels. From every thing I can learn from these channels
and others here of the best authority, I think that the opinion given in
my yesterday's letter will be borne out by facts, and that the Prince
of Orange will be certain of the sovereignty of Belgium. On what
conditions is still to be seen. Cappaccini and all the clergy are for him,
in preference to a republic with de Potter at its head. Every one almost of
the least respectability is of the Name mind. Baron d'H orst (this you
may depend on) has within a week most strongly expressed himself to that
effect. He considers the nomination of the Prince as the only chance for
saving the country; and he says that he can reckon with confidence
on his own influence over the whole populace, adding, that even
in Liege opinions are decidedly in favour of the Prince. One Cap-
tain of a section of the new Garde Bourgepise, showed to my in-
foment the cockade which he carried in his pocket, and which he
assured him was common to almost the entire of the Garde. It
was black, red, and orange, instead of yellow, which forms, with
red and black, the Brabangon colours. Many other instances were
cited to me, which leave me no doubt as to the state of opinion.—
Ducpetiaux, Evrard, and Pletinckx, who are liberated from their
confinement in Antwerp, are gone to Brussels (the former particu-
larly), decided partisans of the Prince, and resolved to exert their ut-
most influence in his favour. How this has been brought about I can-
not say, but Ducpetiaux certainly possesses great influence among his
party—l do not like the term " Jacobins," and Liberals I cannot con-
sent to all them. The Provisional Government is completely governed
by the club of the Salle de St. George. Its members arc, in great ma-
jority, furious against the Prince. De Potter, I believe, said something
in his favour on Friday night, but was hooted down. Your Brussels
correspondent must however know so very important a point correctly.
in lcn's dismissal was necessary in consequence of the number of
Belgian officers who would not serve under him. Mellinet also will,
by and by, be obliged to retire from the Belgian service. He is a man
of immense military talent. Van Helen has none whatever, but is very
brave and dashing.
A deputation from Ghent was with the Prince yesterday. He was
in high spirits on Sunday, and wrote home in a most cheering tone.
But the King's proclamation, convoking the States to meet here, threw
the Prince and his friends into consternation. None of the Belgian
Deputies think of coming here; yet the King could not, without a
mere mockery, have convoked the States for Antwerp, as if Belgium
were really still his.
Despatches from Prussia, decisive of the policy to be 'assumed, were
looked for to-day anxiously. They had not arrived this evening, and
I am writing in great haste for the courier, who starts earlier than
usual. The tone of the corps diploniatique, with regard to France, is
greatly lowered since the Brussels affair. The state of Prussia ex-
plains it sufficiently. France sends protestations of its moderation and
neutrality : M. Benin de Vous had positive instructions to avoid Brus-
sels ; but one of his secretaries was there, in intimate communication
with the Provisional Junta. _ _ _

700 volunteers are to march from this place for Breda on Thurs.
day. The greatest spirit is evinced on all hands ; and the loan of
20,000,000 of florins, like all the other acts of the King, is highly
approved of.
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BRUSSELS, OCT. 4.
The newspapers will, of course, have informed you of all the pro-
ceedings in this amicable country, so I shall merely add, that on Thum-
day, the 2&h, began the further divertisanent of a kind of siege, which
lasted four days, to the music of cannon and musketry, with an obligato
accompaniment of the tocsin. In the evening we were enlivened end
enlightened by the burning houses, of which one hundred and thirty
are destroyed. One particular part of the amusement was, to have
a cannon planted by the Bourgeois just under our windows, and
to see it taken away by • party of lancets • to have a few balls in
our window.shutters, and a very large hole made in the next
house to us by a cannon.bsll. Notnwithstanding all, we were not in the
least frightened, sitting all the while in our back drawing.room ; and our
house is so little injured, that those who pass by remark it as extraor-
dinary, for every other in the row has 28 or 90 panes of- glem broken,
the shutters shot away, and all kinds of damage done. We have been
equally fortunate as to pillage or molestation of any kind from either