Star.
London, England, 1831-05-20 00:00:00

volt THE STAR.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE EXCLUSIVE.

PARIS. Wzmtzeo AY.

11 The late venerable Labbey de Pompieres had completed
his 81st year. For the last four months the state of his
health would no longer permit him to take part in the busi-
ness of the Chamber. This new loss will plunge the patriots
in mourning. The man who had constituted himself the
champion of cheap government, whose simplicity of manners
and republican frankness had caused him to be surnamed
The Tribune of the People, will leave a void in our legis-
lative assemblies, which will be difficult to fill. Like Ben-
jamin Constant, he bad seen with grief scattered to the
minds a revolution, the heroic work of the people;
like him he died, with the regret of not having
assisted at the regeneraration which was the day-
dream of his life. Hope even abandoned bin',
in his last moments. Hope it alas forms no longer a
portion of the fortune of France, which has arrived at the
point of the Polignacs and the Charlcses X ! The long
career of Labbey de Pompieres has been that of a worthy
man, and an inflexible patriot. The hommage of his fellow
citizens has been his recompense ; the venerable Tribune
wished for no other. May gratitude and popular sympathy
accompany him to his last home, and place his name in our
hearts by the side of those of Manuel and Benjamin
Constant. Labbey de Pompieres leaves no sons. His
grand-daughter is married to M. Odilon Banat, who follows
so worthily his venerable footsteps, and raises by such pure
talents the energy of his patriotism.—La Revolution.
The uneasiness of the Russian government upon the ac-
count of the individuals nominated to the posts raised in the
Russian Governments, formerly Polish, is so great, that
changes take place nearly every fortnight; the nomination
of young Rimsky-Korsakoff to the government of Wolhynia
will not last long. He was not a stranger to the Russian
conspiracy of 1825. The army of Lithuania amounts to
nearly 30,000 men, under arms. Two neighbouring pow-
ers desire eagerly to intervene in our affairs by the way of
negociations. Our diplomatists keep themselves in reserve,
and have done RO some time ; but after having received dis-
patches from London, its attitude has become as firm
as imposing; it is to that power, for whom we have done
nothing, that we have all to hope from, whilst France, who
has at all times received so much from us, remains mute and
insensible to the last moment. Notwithstanding the will of
the Emperor Nicholas, of naming to the command of the
grand army of reserve Russian generals, so great is the
scarcity that lie has found but one, so that he is obliged to
have recourse to the Germans ; and, except the Russian
commander in-chief Tolstoi, all the other superior officers
are the d'Auvrays, the Kleinmichels, the Kotzebuet, the
Lowensterns. The true Russians are more and more offended
at this outrage made to Muscovite vanity.—Constitutiunnel.
La Gazette de France says, that William IV. is sacri-
ficing the repose of England to his thirst for popular ap-
plause, and adds—" Let us please him in his own way—
let us proclaim him the greatest of Kings, and so he will
be for us, if, by placing the people of England in opposi-
tion to that aristocracy which, as formerly in Venice,
constitutes the real strength of the country, he occasions
the annihilation of the most clever but most treacherous of
Governments." It then calls on the whole of Europe to
take advantage of the state of confusion in which England
will inevitably be placed, and revenge themselves for the
manner in which every country has been in turn sacrificed
to the interests of Great Britain. It calls on Germany to
offer an asylum to the numerous artisans who will shortly
be without work ; on France to secure Algiers ; on Denmark
to retake Heligoland ; on Holland to regain its ancient
colonies; on Portugal to form an alliance with Spain; on
Austria to seize the seven islands; on America to claim a
port in the Mediterranean; and on all the Powers to unite
in driving the English from Malta and assisting Ireland,
India, and Canada to establish their independence.
" Such," it continues, " should be the price which Eng-
land should pay for the theatrical plaudits with which the
King chuses to regale himself, and such it would be if the
other nations of Europe would come to a proper under-
standing among themselves. Sinking under the weight
of an enormous debt, burdened with a population of pau-
pers, composed of three separate kingdoms, all repugnant
to each other, the existence of Great Britain is a prodigy
only to be accounted for by the power of its aristocracy
and the skill of its Government," It then argues that,
as the success of the Reform question will annul the
power of the aristocracy, the dissolution of the whole
social body must follow, and the ruin of England will
be consummated; and concludes by remarking that if
William IV. were really actuated by a love of his peo-
ple and a conviction of the justice of liberal institutions
be would show it by conferring on Hanover, where he
has no Parliament to controul him, those privileges which
his predecessor, at the Congress of Vienna, bound himself
to confer. But this he refuses, and turning a deaf ear
to the well founded complaints of his Hanoverian subjects,
listens only to the senseless shouts of the English mob.
Le National treats the idea of an agreement between the
Great Powers to disarm as a theoretical absurdity. It re-
marks, that of the five Great Powers, three only are ex-
clusively European ; Russia and England have interests
which embrace the other quarters of the globe; it would
therefore be absurd to ask those nations to deprive them 7
selves of the power of pursuing their conquests or carrying
on their schemes in other parts of the world, unconnected
with Europe; and yet, if Russia is to keep her army, and
England her navy, on a war footing, for the sake of their
remote projects, what security can the other nations feel,
that, if they disarm, advantage will not be taken, soontir
or later, of their unprepared state.
La Quotidienne.—From the first moment of the revolu-
tion, its advantages have passed from the hands of the men
of July, who were the authors of it, into those of the doc-
trinaires, who took no part in it. M. Casimir Perier, who
is the representative of the latter class, attacks the former
on every occasion : it is true that anarchy must be the only
state of things which can emanate from men who fought for
anarchy ; and M. Perier, in opposing them, proclaims loudly
that order cannot result from the revolution of July,—and
there we agree with him.
Le Temps continues to detach itself more and more from
the present ministry.
Gil EEC e.—Mo DON April 26.—The president of Greece
Capo d'lstrias, arrived here on Sunday, the 24th, from Nau-
plia, on board a steam-boat. His suite consisted in a
Lieutenant-Colonel, dressed it. la Frangaise, and four Grecian
gendarmes. Yesterday the officers of the garrison, with
General Shneider at their head, went to pay him a visit.
The President then delivered to them an address, in
which he earnestly recommends them to be indulgent
towards the Greeks, " with whom," said be, " it is neces-
sary to have much patience; for, since three years that
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