Star.
London, England, 1830-09-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

Tiros— Affairs in the Netherlands are rapidly approaching a exist,.
Papers and letters from Holland ani from Belgium, of the 20th, give us
reason to believe that Brussels has either by this me submitted to the
Government, or that its inhabitants have exchanged their equivocal
character of armed petitioners for that of declared rebels.

Poss.—By the most recent and authentic accounts from Brussels we
learn that the worthy shopkeepers of that city begin to get tired of hay.
ing nothing better to do than to mount guard over the goods they can
no longer sell, and would almost equally rejoice at the presence of the
King's troops to relieve them from the military duties they And so bur.
densome, and at the return of those customers whom their revolutionary
language and demeanour have assisted the efforts of an been.
diary mob to drive away. The general impression among the
beat informed persons in this country certainly is, that ditto
no longer exists any impediment to the full restoration of
of the Royal authority in the capital of Belglum,a nd that the Stales.
General may proceed to discuss. The pause which has occurred in the
progress of the French Revolution, the temporary ascendancy of the
more moderate of the Revolutionary party in that country, has obviously
disheartened and paralysed fora moment the Revolution Isis of the Nether-
lands, whose connections and sympathy are entirely with the most violent
and ambitious of French panics. The present, therefore, is the period
foe;a display of energy and decision on the part of the Government of
Belgium, if that country is to be preserved. Let political power
once change hands in France (is there any even of the warmest admirers
of the French Revolution who can deny the probability of a speedy and
sudden change ?) and it will be too late. lf, however, just retribution
be now administered to the Belgic rebels—if the proper means of re-
pression be now vigorously employed, the confidence of this senseless
and criminal confederacy in the protection and aid of revolutionary
France will not in any circumstances be vertessily restored, and the
future convulsions and vicissitudes which France is probably destined
to undergo will be so much the less likely to diffuse their agitating and
disorgasiang influence beyond her proper boundaries.

II zamm.--Though confidently stated to be the ease, we never-
theless, trust it is not true, that the Reverend Divine who has been so
recently translated from the See of Gloucester to that of Exeter is about
to make another change, by tranferring the scene of his pious labours
to the more profitable Dee of Banger. A Bath paper states the trans.
lotion to have actually taken place; bat such cannot be the ease,
as the Gasetting of the Conge d'elire is the necessary and unavoid-
able prelude to the fact. There is nothing which beings such
disgrace upon the Church, and, of course, thereby so much in-
jure* the cause of religion, as the practice of episcopal trans-
' lation, by which the world are led—and, we fear, but toe truly—to be-
lieve that Churchmen are to be found who worship Mammon in pre-
ference to God. That the Archbishop should be taken from among
the existing Bishops is, perhaps, excusable; but, beyond that, we know
of no good or proper motive which can be assigned for taking a
itystal
from the supervision of a flock to which he ought to be ameba
all earthly considerations. The times are not such as to admit of the
continuance of abuses such as theses and we confidently hops that the
good sense of the public will lead them to consider that the best
friends of the Church Establishment who boldly decry them.
What is thought of the husband or the father, in private life, who de-
serts his wife and family to devote himself to some new and unhallowed
connection ? and bow less criminal, in a strict sense, is he who, wedded
in the holiest bonds to a Christian family, meanly deserts it for the sake
of a better house and more ample domains ? Of course we use the ar.
gutnent generally. The practice hes been too long countenanced to make
its application personal. But we would earnestly call upon those who
must see the mischief it is calculated to produce, and who have the
power to avert the danger, to set their faces against the continuance den
evil, which has been one of die blessed fruits of favouritism and borough-
patronage on the one bend, and of a servile cupidity on the other.

is. we say, possible—{though we really know not what
the fact may be)—it is possible that the Prime Minister may not have
lammed the stock of his regular Parliamentary sup by the late
appeal to the people. But, 1f we understand the of Wellington's
position, and if his area, as we trust he dues, relies upon that which
ought to constitute the of a British Minister in times Wm these.
be will not very closely ea pertanstely soma the party master-rolls
within the House of COMMON& He wM look abroad and rest his
hopes apes the reception of his measures at the hands of the nation
out of doses. Having tin voles of the public with him, be
way WI 11. oristseniey to resist• those memoses at its peril. We
are on /nit aware that muds emberamement of as evary-day aad to,.
ntenlkcidadi may be omasiseed to a Minims* by the west of a mope.
taialar of szporieneed Meads. rogolorly bah Aram
Vroet, who am net waly competeat to week Is that
oft.% lot to be advocate for tbo Hoesammet et *my
pot, ts 4 to aridly defend, sag shoo tho=daill mod ragY
Ito *lob public oinoots rompsoilib. Tho that portico-
destotpdoo of pow bosom omo mot too* osionowisdito. been
oppoist thoosiboot tin two potoollis ousloos, sod It is precisely the

single ground on which, were we authorised to counsel the Duke of
Wellington, we might recommerd th. expediency of reinforcing his
Administration.

CHRONICLE—The people of England ate beginning to be aware of
the nature of the injury which they sustain front the law favouring the
accumulation of property in the bands of individuals. Why is it that a
Frenchman with a moderate income is independent, and an Englishman
with three times the same means fs miserable and a slave ? Because
property Is more divided in France, and individuals are not, in
order to escape the contempt which is the lot of poverty in an
aristocratical country, stimulated to acquire greet.. wealth. A cer-
tain amount of property is necessary to comfortable existence; but
the demands of luxury are as insatiable as the grave. Burke,
with his talents and his iudustry, in Francs, a the present day,
would have been a first-rate man, witheut the serenity of ruining
his tradesmen, and occupying an immense Luildni_, in order to as-
sociate with the Aristocracy. M. Destutt de Treey well obseta es—
" The multiplication of our means of enjoyntent is a very good
thing ; the too unequal distribution of them is a very bad thing,
and the source of all our evils. The Interest of the poor is the inte-
rest of society.'. . . . I shall beasked, perhaps, is the inequality of
wealth so great an evil ? I answer boldly, yes ; tor. in the first place,
reducing inequality of instruction, capacity, and tutiuence, it tends to
bring about an inequality of power, and consequently to overturn et.
ciety. Besides, in considering it only in an economical point of view.
we have seen that the fund from which wages are derived, is the revenue
of all those who have capitals, and that among the latter, they who
embark in any industrious enterprise alone augment their wealth,
and consequently the wealth of the nation. Now the possessors
of great fortunes are precisely the persons who are idle, and nlur
only pay labour for tEZiseedeasure. Hence, the more great fortse.es
exist, the more the national wealth diminishes. The matey), tt'
all time' and all countries supports this theory ; for, when vtr
you see CONSPiIIe fortunes, you will there see the greatest ham ry an.!
the greatest stagnation in industry. To judge of the exaggeration
of certain fortunes, we must keep proportions in mind ; for there
may be rich Englishmen, equally rich, and even richer, than Ill?
greatest Russian or Polish Lords; but they arc in the midst of a steeple
among whom easy circumstances are much more general, and, conse-
quently, the disproportion, though real, is much less decided. The
perfection of society would then he to increase as much as possible.
our wealth, by avoiding its extreme inequality."—We have seen, lintv.
I ever, that the law in England favours that which it ought to Its rail's r
the object of law to prevent. We witness the effects in the arrogant and
exclusive character of an Arirtocracy on the one hand, and the servility
and immorality of the inferior classes on the other.