Star.
London, England, 1831-05-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The King on Monday leaves Paris fur his projected tour, to the dif-
ferent fortified works. He will visit Rouen, Havre, Dieppe. &c. &IA
return to Paris in ten days, Some of the Journals insinuate that the
cause of his journey Is to throw his weight into the scale of the elections,
and that he travels in that character for the House of Perier and Co.

Tits DECORATIONS.—There is something to create
serious thought, in all the events which have pressed forward, wave
upon wave, in the course of the week. The attitude the Government
has taken, tome than ever, during these four days, a character of po-
lice without dignity, and of imputation without good faith. The Jour-
nals are Its pledges ; those for whom 1,500,000 francs were recently
voted, to act as reporters, to pervert facts, and calumniate good inter-
dons. Let us look upon things in their true point of view. Struck to
the heart by the union of the decorated of July, power sought to re-
tract. The magistrates had recourse to personal influence ; they gained
i some men with promises ; intimidated a few others with threa:s; and
the sum total of these dark intrigues, at most, has been a hundred pro-
testations against the acts of the great body. Still it was necessary to
act with deceit, as is proved by the Messages demanding siguatures to
blank documents, and taking others by surprise. A banquet toot place,
where men united by their political sympathies, drank with dosed doors,
and formed their opinion upon the events of the day. The same eve.
Ding, groups were formed upon the Place Vendome, and alatough no.
thing characterised a connection between these two acts, though they
bad even an opposite tendency, the ministerial journals received an or-
der to implicate them in one and the same accusation. More than this :
fur some days the demonstrations of a pious grief off'ended the Govern-
ment; the crowns of violets; the bouquets thrown over a railing,
canned painful surmises. The idea just then presented itself of profiting
by an unexpected incident; the offetings of mourning a cre swept away;
and thus, popular expressions threw the provocation of that act upon a
party who would have remained indifferent. Titus, the following days
furnished the desired evil : there was in the national guards who bar.
deeded the streets, and in the curious who looked at them, au attitude
of uneasy curiosity, and of vague disappointment. Perhaps, if we
had been in .he secret of the comedy, we should find a new citapter to
add to the memoirs of Vidoeq. No ! illusion is henceforth no longer
possible. The present ministry would reduce us, in all its purity, to the
lying and deceitful system which lost Charles X. and his partisans.
When it is reduced to govern with the police, to pay so much a line for
support and perversion, to confound In a polemique without good faith,
all notions of truth and justice ; when, in order to combat men, whose
purity Is beyond suspicion, they have recourse to imputations without
proofs, to calumnies without foundation.—Oh I these are the moments
when they betray their weakness ; and by avowing themselves unworthy
to fight with loyal arms, they support themselves but by artifice, for they
would perish by the truth.—lns Reoohstion.
Esroaw Ile Esoimin.—England furnishes us with an admirable
model in the practical good sense with which it pursues the work of
reform, in the spirit of perseverance with which the king, the ministers,
and the country. joindy,will accomplish a measure necessary to the public
good, the opportuneness of which has been universally felt. Men who
have grown old on the benches of the Opposition, who, all their life, have
called for Parliamentary Reform, now, when power is in their hands, are
faithful to their former life and principles, and to their political alit.
totes. The nation, long bent beneath the weight of the sacerdotal
and aristocratical oligarchy, marched straight forward to the
the revision of its decsepid institutions, heedless and untimidated by
old women's fears. The king lends his sovereign support to the plans
of his ministers, and does not destroy with one hand what be has con.
atructed with the other. This is the happy picture of union now pre.
seated by England, and which we have no doubt will make it pass
triumphantly and unscathed through the dangerous period of its reform.
And let it not be thought that the ministers have not been reviled, and
the monarch threatened. There, as in France, the privileged classes
have held up the bug-bears of anarchy and republican scaffolds; they
have entreated, conjured the king to save at once his crown and
faithful people. The King replied by a dissolution of Parliament.
The people are now replying by sending to the House of Commons a
triumphant majority of reform members. Though, in England, " res.-
prif we court pas les rues," as is said to be the case in France, the
people must have some other qualities which will supply the deficiency,
and enable them to see clearly into their affairs, and appreciate
events at their just value. Their minds were not the least in the world
disturbed by the window-breaking at the illuminations; the minis-
terial journals hardly condescended to mention it, and if you
speak to an Englishman about kin a tone of alarm, be as civilly
las possible laughs in your face. The English nation must positively
be either the wisest or the most senseless in the world. What a differ.
ence between the social state of France and England ! What a differ-
!
cam between the civilisation of the two populations I Does it become
us to be giving way perpetually to groundless terrors, and to act for ever
under the influence of fear P—National.

POLAND.

Hamscrio, Maw 13.—The following is from the Prussian State
Gavotte of May 11.—According to intelligence received yesterday from
Lemberg, General Dwernickl, with an army of about 5,500 men and
four pieces of artillery, has been driven out of Voihynia by the Rue.
sian General Rudiger, and forced to seek refuge upon the Austrian
territory, between Husiatyn and Brody. General Dwernieki was
obliged to give up arms, ammunition, and hones, foe the purpose of
being immediately handed over to the Russians, and be and his adhe.
rents have, in the first instance, been sent through Transylvania to
Hungary." The Austrian Observer to the Bth, has given no intelli-
gence of Dwernieki's reverses.

Lzwaaao, Aram 28.—General Dwernicki has been forted to yield
to the united force of several Russian corps. After having been beaten
on the 18th inst. at Boromel ; after having lost 11,000 men in a series
of engagements that occupied nine days, and baring been driven thirty
German miles southward from the point at which he crossed the Bug,
nothing remained to him yesterday but to take refuge with the remnant
of his corps on the Austrian territory near Tarnopol. It seems to have
been in consequence of the unexpected arrival of the Russian army lately
stationed in the Turkish provinces, that Dwernicki became unable to
resist the overpowering force brought to act against him.

TURKEY.

According to the Gamin paper._" The flames of discontent that
have been so long kept under in Bosnia, have at length broke eat.
The malcontents are desirous of establishing the ancient order of
things, of driving away the Grand Visit, and annulling the cedes.
mom of the Pone relative to Berrie. Bloody battles are Said to
ban taken place on April 14. The insurgents ham it is said,
tared to pay to the Porte an annual tribute of 1,000,000 of plarills,
If they, are relieved in future frets tha detatatkin of a Visit, and

are allowed to establish a Republican Ccnatitution, and elitist. thcir
own rulers and °Ricers of state. These movements are attributed to
the suggestions of foreigners, who have been for some titre at s,r,
jvo, which is the centre of the commerce of the Levart."

German papers to the 11th May have been rev Ivo,' tt,:,
morning. They repeat the accounts previously rv(ei.td vi
the submission of the Polish General Dwta !Chi ; 1, ,t
st:11, that affair is involved in doubt, as regards its ultituz,
effects. These papers mention the recal of Lord Cou
our Ambassador at Vienna ; who, it is added, is to he clas
ceeded by Sir FREDERICK LAMB, brother of Lord 11
y.
BOURNE. We annex a few brief selections:

Vittwara, May 6.—Yesterday evening the marriage of IN !top,'
Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburgh, with her Roy.+l
the Princess Cecelia, sister of Prince Gustavus Wass, was alit).—
in the hotel of the Prince in the presence of the Imperial Court. l'ho
Jablornuski, formerly Imperial Ambassador to the Court of Naples,
been commissioned by bis Majesty the Emperor to go to Turin, with
the congratulations of the Imperial Court on the accession of tl
Prince of Carignan to the throne; he will set out for Turin to day o•
tomorrow.

Lord Cowley, the English ambassador at this Court, received fror
London the day before yesterday his letters of read, and will be suc-
ceeded by Sir F. Lamb, the brother of Lord Melbume, as r
was very generally reported, immediately on the change in
the Ministry last year. News has also just arrived here from
Lemberg, that General Dwerneeki, who retreated into Gallicia on thc
27th of April, has laid down his arms, on being summoned so to do, L)
the Austrian military authorities.

VIENNA, MAT 6.—There are still various conflicting reports re.
erecting the recruits on the frontiers of GaWeis. Some friends of the
Poles affirm, that only part of Dwemecki•s corps has sought refuge in
the circle of Tarnopol, and is not yet disarmed, as the Poles had made
remonstrances which had been referred to Vienna to be discussed. They
think it possible, that the Poles who had fled into the Gallician terra.
tory, after laying down their arms, which would be carried slier them,
may be conducted to the old Polish frontier, near Cracow, whence ttey
might return, without obstacle, to their own country. Others with more
probability affirm, that the Polish fugitives will remain in a depot in
Austria, till the end of the revolution ; but the military effects, arras,
&c. as Government property, be given pp to the Russians.

A Russian Courier, who left Saint Peteraburgh on the 77th of Aptil,
has arrived at Vienna. Repassed through Lithuania, and affirms, that
the insurrection in that province is almost entirely suppressed. Several
of the insurgents, who were taken with arms in their hands, were treated
according to the military law, and shot.

VIENNA, MAY G.—Four per Cent. Metalliques, 71; Bank Shares,
1008.-411geutains Zeitung, May H.