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~~~~ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. :'ront the Second Edition of the Messager des Chawares of Sunday, and the other French Papers of Saturday. The Chamber of Deputies had adopted M. Tracy's proposition for .he abolition of the punishment of death in all political cases, and re cared it to the King with a request that he would, during t h e re- cess, have a project devised for carrying it into effect. The political aspect was less pacific than it had been in Paris. The following are extracts :--- The Monileur contains an ordinance, commanding all functionaries, civil and military, to take an oath of allegiance in these terms:—." I swear fidelity to the King of the French, obedience to the Constitutional Charter, and the laws of the Kingdom." This oath to be taken within fifteen days, and all non-jurors to be consider i as dismissed. (From the 3fessager des Chambres, dated Sunday.— Second Edition.) The news is confirmed that there is great agitation in Holland. They accuse the King of having, by his obstinacy, brought matters to the present crisis. It is said that the merchants of Amsterdam, who had offered pecuniary succours to the King, before matters were brought to the state in which they now are, have closed their purses, excusing themselves upon the ground that, by the depreciation of the public funds, they have already experienced very great losses. A letter front the Hague says,—the King of the Low Coun tries is in a state of anxiety difficult to describe. Ile regrets much that Matters have been driven to this point. Amongst the reports which are spread it is mentioned that disturbances have broken out in many cities of Holland, where they have refused to pay the direct imrsts. VIENNA, SErT. de Wessenburg is charged by our Ca. binet with an extraordinary mission to the Government of the Ne therlands. PARIS, OCT. B.—Letters from Barcelona of the 30th September an nounce the most hostile intentions on the part of the Count d'Espagne against the Constitutional party. If some vigorous measures have not been adopted by King Ferdinand, much blood will be spilt in Catalonia. At Oviedo numerous bands of assassins are organized. The attitude of Generals Longa at Valentia, and Querada at Se ville, will, without doubt, have disconcerted the plans of the Apo,- tolics. A private letter from Brussels, of the date of the 6th, in forms us that a body of 1,500 volunteers, under the command of M. Parent, left that day to attack the remains of the Royalist troops, yet it. the environs of Molines. M. Niellon extends his observations so far as the Bois le Due at Maestricht, so as to interrupt the communica tion between that city and Louvaine. At the departure of the courier a report was spread at Brussels that the King had quitted Holland, and that an insurrection bad taken place, and the Royal Palace been pil. laged. Prince Moskowa has arrived at Stockholm, and has delivered to the King of Sweden an autograph letter from the King of the French. (From Le Temps of Saturday.) THE LAW RELATIVE TO THEiNATIONAL GUARD. The Commission employed in preparing a project of law upon the National Guard has concluded its labours ; it is for the most part a remodeling of the former laws at the Restoration, the arrangement of l which might be said to present several anomalies. There is at present no very particular innovation, except in the chapter relative to penalties. Without leaving the liberty of citizens to the mercy of men often ani mated by unworthy passions, it was found necessary to contrive the means of enforcing the service of those who were unwilling to perform their duty in the National Guard. M. Anatole de Montesquieu returned yesterday from his mission to the Pope, and to the King of Naples; he has brought two autograph letters from both these Potentates, and their formal recognition of the present Government, besides new credentials for the Prince Casteleicala and the Pope's Nuncio. M. Alentant, the French Consul at Venice, who for the last two years has performed that office in Venice, has just been appointed to the latter employment, to replace M. Drovetti, who has been allowed to retire. There is a report at Brussels of an insurrectionary 4 movement in Hot land—that the King had made a hasty departure, anti that the Royal Palace had been pillaged. Admiral Duperre has arrived in Paris. From the Courtier Francais of Saturday. News from Brussels, of the 6th of October, states positively that four English frigates have arrived in the Escaut, for the purpose of pro. tecting our commercial shipping against the attacks of the Royal Navy. Front Le &lye. As account from Charleroi, of the Sth of October, states that at one o'clock in the afternoon that city surrendered, and that 31. de Nalme, an Advocate, was the person who negotiated the surrender. This im portant victory is due to the bold determination of the brave inhabi tants, and of those of the district.. Two days have been allowed to the troops for evacuating the place ; they will be obliged to lay down their arms, and can take with them only their baggage. The materiel found in this city amounts in value to 10 millions. BARCELONA, SEPT. 30.—The Quijote, who had been disarmed by the Count d'Espagne, when the Kingcame to reside here for. short time, have just received orders, from the same Count d'Espagne, to take up their arms again. Our city, in which not a single company of Royal Volunteers could be raised since the overthrow of the constitution, must row furnish two battalions, each of SOO: the Colonel is M. Margarola ; the Regidor Espana is the Commander of the Ist battalion, and M. Bosols is at the head of the second. These three officers belong to the nobility, and have been signalised as the most inveterate of Catalonia.— The men who have presented themselves to be enrolled in the different regiments are chiefly servants of the nobility and of ecclesiastical persons. Up to the present day, no respectable tradesman, not any person engaged in commercial pursuits, has offered himself for this service. The arming of Catalonia, and the other measures adopted by the Count d'Espana against the Liberals, arc the result of instructions and orders received from the Apostolicals, Zambrano and Calomarde. " I have a carte Uanche," observed the Count d'Espana to one of his friends, a few days since, " and I shall deliver the country from the fatal intoxication which infects it." In fact, this sanguinary per sonage has taken it into his head to exterminate the most distinguished of the Liberals (Negros,) and it is for the purpose of rendering this mas sacre the more feasible that he has had them scattered throughout different villages in the provinces. The Prince de Moskowa has been received at Stockholm, and admitted to a special audience by the King of Sweden, to whom he delivered an autograph letter from the King of the French. Besides the exile of the Apostolical leaders, and the banish.' mein of Father Cyrillo, to which we alluded yesterday, the King et Spain has pronounced hit determination of rejecting the assistance of the Ministers Calomarde and Zambrano. 111 M. Arjona and Melia are mentioned as the persons who succeed to their places. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, FRIDAY. (PRESIDENCY OF X. LAPITTE.) The debate upon the project of law for guaranteehig, in the name of the State, the repayment of 60,000,000 of francs of loans or advances which might be made to commerce or industry. M. Delessert moved, as an amendment, that the amount be re duced to 30,000,000, ar.d that, instead of inviting others to advance by the prospect of a guarantee, the karate would itself give available secu titles. payable at different dates, not far distant. .1 long and animated debate took place, but in the result the amend ment was negatived, and the original motion agreed to. The Order of the Day was the discussion of the proposition of M. de Tracy, for the abolition of the punishment of death. M. de Taacir wished no one to entertain the idea that his proposition was merely the declaration of a principle —of a theory. The proposi tion he should make to the Chamber was conceived in these terms : •• I have the honour to propose to the Chamber to declare by a law that the punishment of death is abolished in France. This proposition is really a law. In this respect the Commission may, and ought to, con sider my proposition as a proposition of law. It ought to propose the -doption, rejection, or modification of it. The speaker announced that would consider succinctly the law telative to the punishment of death. Ile cited what had passed in the Constituent Assembly, when, with the ailanisnous consent of two Committees, the abolition of the punishment ut death had been proposed. The honourable member then entered into A teamed and luminous discussion, to prove that society had no right to pronounce the punishment of death. 31. Keratry examined the question in a philosophical point of view. As to death for political crimes, he considered what advantage society could derive from the death of the guilty person. lie thought that, far trout being useful to society, this death might become hurtful. Looking to what punishment a political offender exposed himself, was it not Itkely that his cause was good, since h: had embraced it at the peril of his life Gen,ral LAFAV ET T E—l support with all my powa, as I have al ways done, the proposition of my hon. friend, 31. de Tracy. I will ob serve, that this question ought to be looked at from the elevated point of view in which the last revolution has placed us. The question is as to completing our revolution. This completion will take place by the elections. The Electoral Colleges are about to send us Deputies capable cat appreciating all that the r: volution has done, and all that it promises us. These who ask for the adjournment of this proposition have not had the mifortune to see their families dragged to the scaffold. I am, tor my part, the enemy of the punishment of death, and, above all, the enemy of the punishment of death in political matters. tl. (lirord the l'Ain, after a remarkable discourse, proposed "that the punishment of death is aholis d. A project of law will be presented to the Chamber, during the Session, to determine the punishments which ought to be substituted ler the punishment of death, in the cases which it is now applied." A long discussion took place, as well upon the proposition of M. 01- rurd de l'Ain, as upon that of 31. Keratry, to refer the matter to a l'Ammieeiron, which, during the Sitting should draw up an Address to :he King, supplicating hiin to prepare a law for the abolition of the ianishment of death. The latter proposition was adopted. At 8 in the evening the Chamber again met. M. Berenges presented the proposed Address to the King. MM. de Tracy, Jaquemincr, Loathe Silveri, and others, were heard relative to the safest The Chamber successively adopted the various Paragraphs, and also voted the adoption of the Address, after a KM unl, in which the numbers were-226 for, and 21 against it. , The President announced that the King would, to-morrow, at twelve o'clock, receive the deputation with the address. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, OCT. 9. The President took the Chair at one, when Al. Gaston de la Roche foucauld handed in 7,600 francs front the inhabitants of Bourges and Soncerre ; NI. Lecarlier another sum of 9,140 from those of Laon ; and NI. Humana 2,200 francs from the Custom-officers of the depart. ment of Bas-Rhin : to be applied to the wants of the wounded of July. M. Marachal made a report on several petitions. A M. Reybert, of Paris. said he asked to be allowed to prove that, during the Ministry of Vilele and Polignac, a sum of five millions of francs was applied to purchase a mass of illegal debts, amounting to 100 millions, which were admitted into the accounts of the liquidation of arrears for their nominal value, and of which 95 millions remained at the personal disposition of the Ministers. 31. Reybert further accused 31. Dudon with being the principal agent of these actions. The petitioner, observed the Reporter, not being able to substantiate his assertions, I propose the Order of the day.—Agreed. M. Guillemin, of Paris, suggested the plan of placing a register in each municipality in France, on which every Frenchman, arrived at the age of majority and enjoying civil rights, will express his assent or dis. sent to raising the Duke of Orleans to the throne. M. Marschal said that the Chamber, in presenting the Duke of Dr ies= with the Crown, had ministered to the wishes of the nation. He, tewsequently, proposed the Order of the Day. M. de Lameth said that he did not consider the petition even worthy of the Order of the Day. "Them is," said he, an anarchical, if not a counter-revolutionary, intention in the petition. Three months after the King has been raised to the throne, and when the choice of the Chambers has received the sanction of the whole nation, it is the height of impertinence to contest the rights of the King. Al. Mancha justified the intention of 31. Guillemin. His petition is dated the 2d of August, at which time the form of Government was as yet uncertain. The order of the day was then carried. Franclieu, of Senlis, presented the project of a new social contract. This petition being likewise anterior to the amendment made to the Charter, the Reporter proposed to pass to the order of the day. Agreed. M. Daunant continued the report on the petitions. 31. Cesar, of Troyes, said he called for the re-imbursement of the two millions appropriated by Napoleon, in 1814, to recompense military or civil services, and services rendered to his person and family. The Reporter entered into long considerations respecting Napoleon's Civil List. In 1814 (said he) it amounted to an immense sum, and was seized upon by the King of France. In 1817 and 1822 the subject was brought before the Chamber by Al. La Bouilleeie, the Minister of the King's Household, who declared that the balance of that list in his hands amounted to upwards of six millions, which he was ready to pay into the public Treasury. The Reporter was of opinion that the petition should be referred to the Council of Ministers. M. Medlin row to support the prayer of the petitioner. " Napoleon (said he) abandoned to the nation all his personal property,on condition that two millions were paid to persona whose names he wrote with his own hands. This list was likewise signed by Maria Louisa, and ratified by the Allied Sovereigns. Since the restoration, the Mi. nistry constantly refused to fulfil these conditions. The donees in vain presented their claims by every legal means in their power ; they were told to produce the original documents establishing them, and that jus tice would be done them. They discovered them in the bureau of the Foreigmoffice, and deposited them in the hands of the Ministry of Fi nances. Baron Louis himself acknowledged their receipt. Since that period I myself made every inquiry in that office, and could find no trace of them ; but I learned from some officers of that department that they had bean locked up in the private desk of the Minister, and were finally destroyed. The petitioner and his fellow-sufferers merit the soli citude of the Chamber. I support the conclusion of the Commission." The petition was referred to the Council of Ministers. The Chamber then proceeded to the discussion of the law on liquors, which was carried without opposition. • PALI, STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 9.—Five per Cents, 93f 40c 60c 96f 95f 90c 80c 75c 80c 90c 96f 95f 95c 90c 80c 70c 80c 70c 6k 96i 10c 96f 15c. Three per Cents. 64180 c 90c 63f 65f 10c 65f 64f 85c 90c 63f 65f 20c 65f 65f 10c 65130 c. Rente de Naples. 62f 75c . 63f 62f 90c 75c. Rente d'Espagne, 18} 18 184. Royal Spanish Loan, 49. Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 38 374 37 374 - Haitian Loan, 370 f. ExcxAvoz ox Loxoox.—One Month—Paper, 25f 3k ; Money, 25f 30c. Three Months—Paper, 25f 20c ; Money, 25f I3c. From the Herald Correspondent. MADRID, SEPT. 30. This day it is stated in the Order of the town, that, in celebration of the anniversary of the happy liberty of his 3lajesty, and the plenitude of his imprescriptible rights. on the Ist of October next there is to be a grand gala, he having deigned to fix the hour at half-past 11 that day, for the gener al kissing of hands (or reception at Court). The artillery of the royalist volunteers will, on so joyful an occasion, fire a triple salute of cannon. The Sub-delegate of Police and Alca lde, de Coste Zorrilia, was yesterday dismissed from his employment and replaced by the Lieutenant Corregidor, Don Garcia Donal. The duties of the police branch are exercised in their different quarters by the Alcaldes. The Corte are likewise separated from their autho rity, and will be confided to Commissioners named for this purpose. Sese deem these appointments a triumph of the moderate party over the furious, and believe it to be a step towards a modification in the system of Government, which has been talked of these last two or three days in these parts, but others think it rather an effect of the strong situation circumstances have thrown our Governors into, who fear to find themselves in a thousand calamities unless they can bridle the Apostolicala. Nevertheless, as this is at first sight in contradiction with the fact of the Government having, within these few days, called upon the Chiefs of the Army of the Faith, to raise men in the respective provinces which were the theatre of their exploits some time previous to the last French invasion, it is impossible to explain it otherwise than by the heterogeneousness of the ministry, and the vacillation it is reduced to by the scantiness of its resources, and the struggle of opinions and opposite interests, which are manifested in the provinces. Its first de termination during the present distress was to throw itself into the arms of the Apostolicals, by showing them the identity of their interests, be cause political opinions in reality required the closest union against their common enemies, the Constitutionalists; but experience has proved to government that this faction, tiro' too weak to support it against the imposing mass of Constitutio nalists, was still strong enough to commit it in a terrible manner, and to precipitate its fall by their mad demands—for it wished to command, and not to obey—and most of all by their bloodthirstyness, and by their rage for persecutions, which was now more imprudent and more un seasonable than ever. Thus the Ministry was placed in the hard alter. native of becoming either their victims or their scourge; it chose in preference the latter. In consequence of this the measures I have spoken of to you, and the arrests which were renewed the night before last were resorted to. Don Justo Pastor Pares was yesterday exiled from this capital, and this day Don Rutin° Gonzales, and other persons of less note, have left Madrid in the same manner. One of the chiefs of the Army of the Faith has effected an 'mune. tion in La Mancha, with 60 horsemen, and proclaimed Carlos V. At first it was said to be El Ladle, but others deny this, and say that, on the contrary, this defender of Absolutism has offered his services to the Constitutionalists as one of those who deem themselves most aggrieved by the present Government. Be this as it may, the rising is certain, and it is equally certain• that 200 chasseurs of the Royal Guard have left Ocana, and today a squadron of lancers of the same guard leave this capital for the purpose of pursuing the insur gents. Letters from Seville state that Gen. Luisada was about to dia. arm, because they have likewise contrived a riot with the " negroes." At Ayamonte , believing, no doubt, that the day fixed at Seville had already dawned for arming them, the riot broke out, and they murdered some Constitutionalists and nillaged their houses. Another tumult in Murcia is likewise spoken of, but I could not learn in whose favour it was. On the 22d there was a riot at Cadiz. The occasion of it was a fight between the Carabineers Guards Costa pursuing, on the line of demarcation, a vessel, and firing on the same, by which they killed 3 men, whose corpses having been carried into Cadiz, excited the great. eat irritation in the public mind. The people broke out in imprecations against the carabineers, crying " Death, death, to tyranny ! Long live liberty !"&c. A number of prisoners were taken In consequence thereof, mostly belonging to the lower part of the people. It has been observed, for some time past, that the Diario of this eapi. tal has been filled with sales of estates. Many suppose that these estates belong to the monks and ecclesiastical corporations, who are converting them into money, tu shelter themselves against the blows of fortune. The Royal Palace has resembled, for some time past, a fortress threat ened with a siege, especially at night. The sentries have been doubled at all the avenues. Others have been placed at points where there never had been any before. The troops load with ball cartridges, and the arta. laymen remain by the side of their cannon. A friend, who has his intelligence from the Government itself, tells me that, besides the prisoners I have spoken of, the Advocate Cavia, son of the Notary of the mine name, and brother of the Secretary of the Ambassador of Paris, the Alcalde de Corte Villaine, Colonel of Royal ists, the Curate Merino Zerilla, Father Mile del Co'o de Valiteras, and others of less note, are likewise going into exile. Don Pio Elisalde is a prisoner in gaol, and the Archbishop Yuguansa is arrested at Toledo. In Stocks and Vales Consolidados there is nothing doing. Vales Non Coned 9. Ditto, without interest, 4i. Bank Shares S. BRUSSELS PAPER& (atcsivsn Lair, =Gar.) (From the ✓oerwd de Is Belgique of Oct. 7,8, 9. ) 1111711111114 OCT.. PIROTISIOTAL sovsasmsxr. The Central Committee of the Provisional Government considering that the Dutch Government is fanning Commissions at the Hague, com posed, among others, of Belgians, lately members of the States-General, to treat of the affairs of Belgium, referring to its Decree of October 4, 100, on the Independence of Belgium, declaim to be null and void,' infringing on the ineepeedenee and safety of the State, all acts or trans. actions %Inch &Iglus or others not furnished with power from the Provisional Ch.vanatent, stall take on them to sign or to conclude. " DL POTTER, "S. VANDE MEYER, "CH. ROGIRR, "COUNT FELIX DE MIRODE, " J. VANDERLINDEN, Secretary. " Brussels. Oct. 5, 1830." The Provisional Government has just appointed a Committee to draw up a Constitution. It consists of Messrs. Van Meenen, de Gerlaehe, Thielmans, Dreamt. de Brouckere, Fabry, Ballin, boucle, and Thom. The Central Committee has appointed two notaries and twelve citizens of Brussels, to inspect all the places ravaged by the enemy, and to take an authentic account of the injury done to property, and the acts of violence committed against individuals, in order to transmit to posterity the proofs of the unlte:trd-of ravages committed in the city of Brussels by the Dutch troops, under the command of Prince Frederick of the Nether. lands. The Secretary of the French Legation to the Court of the Netherlands set out this morning at six o'clock, with dispatches for the Hague. A British Cabinet Messenger, coming from the Hague, with dispatches for Linden, passed through yesterday. BRUSSELS, OCT. 7. The troops are in their positions a league beyond Vilvorde ; the bridge of Eppeghent. on the ienne, is defended by artillery, beyond which is the camp. G e n e ral Cort Heiligera has fallen back to Hawk and Maul/cell% According to accounts from Antwerp, orders had been received there its the 4th to evacuate that fortress, and make the troops fall hack to the old Dutch line; but this order had been re voked, acd the troops still occupy their positions, behind the Seth. BRUSSELS. OCT. 8. COMMUNICATION TO OUR FELLOW CITIZENS. " A person, sent by his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, heel been desired to apply to us in order to obtain information on the state of opinion, and on the means of reconciling the interests of his Royal Highness and those of the Belgic nation. We have declared to this person that we had no authority to treat with the Prince on the future situation of Belgium ; that this right belonged to the National Con. gress, which can alone decide on the future situadon of the country, and that unless we received a special authority from the people we could not go toAntwerp,as the Prince had expressed a desire that we should do. 11'e also expressed to this person that a conduct eminently open and liberal, that the retreat or the troops beyond the bloertlyk, the return of our prisoners, and other popular acts, might, perhaps, lessen the public indignation, and avert the effects of the aversion which involve% all the members of the house of Nassau. We added that all acts emanating from the King are considered as null and void, and that even the good which his Royal Highness might do would have no effect If the hand of the King appeared h it. The full and entire publicity of all our actions is what we owe to our tellow.citizens. "Count F. de MIRODR, "S. VAN DE WEVER." " Bruue4•, ('et. T. LIEGE, OCT. 6. The negociations for the occupation of the citadel hare been concluded this morning. The following are the principal conditions:—The Dutch troops to leave with arms and baggage, And go by the great road to Maestrecht. The General engages on his honour that no excesses shall be committted. The fort shall be given up to Major Lolivier, of the I Ith division, who has engaged on his honour to keep and command the fort in the name of the King of the Netherlands, during the ten days that this convention is pending.—The Dutch are to leave all the artillery, &c. except three field.pieces. The Belgians shall remain in the citadel, and receive provisions on paying for them. Those who think themsclve bound in honour to go to hlaestrecht are at liberty to do so. No troops to reinforce the citadel during the convention. LIEGE, OCT. 7. The 1,100 Dutch began their retreat to Maestrecht yesterday triter. noon. General Van Brecop and Cola. Favange and Pestiaux, marched at their bead. They passed in silence between a double line of our guards, whose good appearance made a singular contrast with the dia. order and despondency of the Dutch. Almost all the soldiers of the 1 lth division gave unequivocal marks of affliction. Many went to the citizens and affectionately shook hands with them. The soldiers of the 13th division (the whole of which departed), almost all of them young recruits hardly knowing how tocarry their arms, looked at the long line of our battalions with a surprise evidently mingled with terror. Gen .Berlaymont, accompanied by his staff, took lave of Geri. Boecop on the plain of Bo coot, whither our guard followed the retiring garrison. Our chiles: soldiers returned into the city at four c'clock, and were received with the liveliest acclamations. The troops that left yesterday passed the night at Tonga, which they were to leave this morning. The militia of the district of Verviers arrived at Liege yesterday evening. The num ber of militia in the barrack of St. Lawrence is 2000 ; the formation of companies proceeds actively, in a few days 4000 National and Liegeois militia will he ready to take the field ; the example set by the province of Liege will doubtless be imitated by the other provinces.—Po litique. GRIN'? Oct. 7. According to the Algesteen Nielsen Biter!, it is reported th at M. Van Tets will be replaced by Baron RoelL The same paper says :—Ant. werp, our last support in the south, is going to escape from us ; the 3d division was on the point of coming to blows with the Burgher Guard, and has been sent out of the city to prevent great misfortunes." PROVINCIAL ESTATES. EXTRAORDINARY DEETING. " We, the undersigned Members of the Provincial Estates of East Flanders, have loluntarily met to-day in the Hall of the Estates, and have resolved to request Messrs. the Etats Deputies to join us today at four P.M. in the said Hall, in order to convoke the Provincial Estates, and unite them in a body of Notables, to consider the means to main. tain order and tranquillity, and to deliberate on the wants of the moment, in the extraordinary circumstances in which the province is placed." (The signatures, seventeen in number.) Aerie Ear, OCT. 7. To.day at half past one o'clock the Prince of Orange reviewed our Communal Huard This fine body of men had a perfect military ap. peanuace. The Prince spoke in the most gracious manner to the officers on their seal and successful efforts in preserving public tranquillity. The Journal of Antwerp contains a proclamation of King William for a levy en matte of the inhabitants of Holland. This :thews what fears the state of Holland excites in the !Sovereign, and what violent meatuses he thinks necessary to preserve that part of his dominions. The same Journal announces that M. Ducpetiaux has been act at liberty on his promise not to leave Antwerp. " We, William, Prince of Orange, seeing the Royal decree of the 4th instant, and particularly Art. 4 of that decree; seeing our prods mation of the sth of that month ; desiring to surround ourselves with all the information that may enable us to fulfil the intentions which we have manifested in that proclamation : " On the report of the Ministers, provisionally attached to our go vernment, and by virtue of the powers confided to us, have decreed and deaee " Mt. I. A Committee of Consultation shall propose to us the mess sures of conciliation which the state of Belgium calls for. "Art. 2. This Committee shall be composed of Messrs. the Count d'Aerschot, Count de Celles, J. F. Collet, Baron Ssrlet de Chokier, Charles de Brouckere, Henri Cogels, W. Goelens, Veranneman, Then. phile Fallon, de Gerlach.•, and Charles le How, as tar as the functions confided to them by the Royal decree of the —of this month shall permit them. We reserve the faculty of adding other Members to their number." LUXEMBU RO, OCT. 6. The Magistrates have ordered that no person is to appear in the streets after eight in the evening without a light. Four hundred men, chiefly recruits, arrived on Sunday from Teem, to reinforce the garrison, whien is 6,e00 men. Chests of arms arrived with these troops. The day be• fore yesterday the Burgomaster and Magistrates published a proclama. don, calling:to mind the peculiar situation of the city of Luxemburg, and the necessity of its abstaining, under present circumstances, from all public demonstrations, the result of which would be that the town would be immediately declared in a state of siege. Some inhabitants of one of the suburbs thought of hoisting the Brabant flag, but they have desisted. The proclamation concludes by inviting the inhabitants to wait fur the cruse of events. The Provisional Government has sent a letter to M. Governor of the province of Luxemburg, in. ruing him to act in conformity with the decrees of the Provisional Go. vemment, and as if the Grand Duchy were an integral part of Belgium ; that is to say, as far as the relations of the provinces with the G t .r. man Confederation will allow. GHENT, ()CT. S. The Journal of Antwerp adds, after the proclamation of the Ps tiler of Orange—such are the remarkable words of a pacificating Prince, who comes with the olive branch of peace, to put an end to our discoid and our misery. Let us seize with eagerness the means of safety ; let us assemble round the Prince who offers us peace, with the public liberties and the reparation of all grievances The creation of a new State, in the political system of Europe, cannot be obained without the consent of all the Sovereigns on pain of a war, and we can affirm that all pru. dent and moderate men at Brussels, renouncing the idea of a pretended Federative Republic, irreconciteable with our interests, and with the political system, desire only to unite under a Prince who has so many claims to their love and their confidence. We are assured, that in the Council of State, the Prince always opposed the employment of force, and that having read a memorial drawn up in that spirit, he tore it to pieces, saying, use it to make cartridges for your cannon.' " BIUUZLO, OCT. b. Now scenes of horror have been divulged here, since my last commu nication, and It is now proved, beyond contradiction, that Prince Pie. perk, to encourage his troops, gave the town up to them for plunder during two hours of the first day's assault. The Dutch had something else on their bands than pillaging during the three remaining days of the combat ! Thus this Royal Minister of War, himself, effected the demoralisation of his own army. Had other objects been thought of than plunder, the city, in its defenceless state, might have been taken in t he morning of Thursday. Punishment followed the criminal (susses of the Royal Brigand and his satellite Dutch with prompt and vigornus step, as we have step by their disgraceul retreat. An eteinal line of division between Holland and Belgium has now been tratad out in a river of blood; and the cord, calculating j 3 doomed, with his descendants, to limit his Come sphere of action to ti e marshes of the North—a fate worthy of a tither who ordains the n.:is mere of his children, and of a s( n vho dares to execute his barbartms orders. On the persons of some Dutch officers, taken prisoners, have been found large quantities of diamonds and other precious ob jects, which they had plundered from the houses of the English and others. Those " authoriser'" robbers wi;l, of course, not et ape the hand of Belgic justice. Tile hinpita.. :Intr. erp have become perfect bazaars, where regular sales are dr. end ..very day of the plate and jew:ls taken, with vieenee, iron: the •Ilsia of the English ^nJ others by die officers of Prince Frederick and amt: . The new system here works well and vigorously; the Centtal Committee proceeds cautiously and with firm steps,. Tre patriot arn:y is aittativ well organised and well equipped in every nip t. They have an in:. ntense " materiel!!" The pride of indepemteme. and the high sense of national existence, manifest themselves in .se: t act oldie new govern • ment. Ildgium wiU seek the friendOtip of England; and will never degrade her recent victories by becia:.ing a province of France. 1). fart, we see here a prevalent jealona, i t % France and of Lie French. A head of the Ex-King crowned with a hollow Dutch chee s e a nd bomb, inscribed " Cadeau fait i son Pettple ma le KM," arc exhibited in the Rue Madeline, and though they create a 'mile, they are still the serious and sure emblems of the Fall of the House of Orange. P.S. 5 P.M —The Central Committer of Bigium have just pro. flounced their independence. A Federative Gov•nnmeat will be forth with nominated, to exist until the litl,;ic nota'lles have decided (et the future form of Government. H. K. Hmx-rArr Fiva O'CLOCK, P.ll.—Tl:z F....nch forces have order, to match into Belgium from the fronticts. nr, !.,e ippeasaare of of the Prussians !!! 25,000 stronA at Ait-tt-ei,spellc.—Lettcr /4- Chronicle.. SPIRIT OF 1 LiE JOG it N. 11.5. HEitsr.n.—lly the official Rta:cmcnt of the Revenue for the p tst vest.. which will be found in another part of our paper, there (compared with the preceding ytar) a decrtasa of almost one mato :. In the Customs there has been an increase of 461,5361: and in ti•t direct taxes, of 6 . .f,5641; but the fallir.g Mr in the receipts of the Ex cise. the Stamp Duties, the Post-1411-e. and the 3liscAlaneous income, leaves a net dectease on the total Revenue (..f 943.7561. In the last quarter there is an increase in the Customs, the Post.office, and the direct taxes; hut the deficiencies in the Excise. the Stamps, and the Miscellanies, leave a decrease of 188,8341. as compared with the cot. responding quarter in last year. This deficiency will be an additional argument for the retrenchments which, it is said, the Doke of Wel lington intends to propose to the new Parliament. Porr.—lt is with unfaignel satisfaction that we this day lay berme the public the Official Tables of the amount of the Revenue for the Tears and Quarters respectively cr.ding on the 10th of October of the cunent and of the last year. The information conveyed by these offi cial statements is of such a nature as cannot fail to afford a high degree of gratification to the community, and to inspire general confidence in the solidity of the national resources, and the progressive increase of ra tional wealth and prosperity. It is clear that with an equal consumption of taxable articles, the reduction of taxes would have occasioned& falling off in the Quarter's Revenue to the amount of 450,0001. But we see that the actual falling off is no more than 113,354 L The conclusion then is unavoidable that the actual consumption of the oountry has been pea•. r —that the country has been in a more prosperous umdition— that d mass of its people have been enabled to command a larger share of the comforts and enjoyments of life, in the last Quarter than in th:tt with which it is compared; or at least that we base now as satisfactor y an indication of these beneficial changes having taken place in the si tuation of the country, as if, with taxes unreduced, the statement of the Revenue had presented to our view a positive increase of receipt t.) the amount of 337,0001. CH ROW IC LL—We lay before our readers the Accounts of the Qatar. tee, ended 10th October, 1830. The deficiency on the quarter ended 10th Octobor, 1830, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1829, is 188,8311. On the year ended 10th October, 1830, as com pared with the year ended 10th October, 1829, it is 943,7361. The de. crease is chiefly in the Excise, 149,6021. On the Customs there is an increase of of 40,6931. The Post.ofEce exhibits an increase of 12,0061. and the Stamps a decrease of 46,320 L On the whole we believe the public will be surprised that the falling air: the Quarter's Itevante is not greater than 188,8311. The , nation has been prepared in va rious Journals, laying claim to the possession of the confidence of Government, for a decrease of upwards of half a million on the quar ter : so that the comparatively small decrease will almost be considered as equal to an increase. Was it intended by dwelling so often before. hand on the immense falling off in the revenue of the quarter, and ac. counting for it by the holding back of the Beer Duty, and by the repeal of other duties, to cause the small increase to be the more easily taken for a considerable increase ? We confess that the accounts of the fall. ing off in the revenue of the quarter rather surprised us, because during the whole of the quarter the industry of the country has been pros i .crous. We hardly remember a period when the various branches of our menu turas were in greater activity. Tura.—The Revenue accounts for the last quarter have been made up, and present a deficiency, as compared with the previous October quarter, of 188,8341. the October quarter of 1829, with which that just elapsed thus stands in unfavourable comparison, having also proved a defective quarter. As we are not among those who fancy that an intelligent people ought to be unfairly dealt with by attempting to mys. tify them in respect of their own concerns, w e shall not attempt to explain away the decreased produce of the excise duties down to the 10th October, by stating a remission of the beer tax which only com mences on the 12th. It seems evident that if the consumption of beer during the last quarter had been equal to that of the corre sponding quarter of 18"-9, the revenue created by that consumption would have been equal also. Had the quantity of beer " brewed and stored" free of duty (that is, beer duty) during the last quarter, ex ceeded the average amount of beer brewed while subject to the duty, the consequences would have appeared in the malt tax, and gone to swell the general average of the excise revenue. We must be satisfied, there fore, to acknowledge that there has been a reduced enjoyment of this class of the national comforts during the three months just expired. If it be asked how this evil may be checked or remedied,we answer there boo cure but in a system of reduced expenditure. He who cannot augment his means must set about contracting his expenses, and making en In come out of parsimony itself. But we do not agree with tilos,: county gentlemen who got up a Lincoishire meeting for the repeal of the malt tax, by way of mitigating the pressure on the commu nity. \nen the revenue is already falling, the wisdom of reptaling a productive tax will bear at least some little time lot consider ation. But, undoubtedly, if the malt-tax be taken ff, and the land lords, who oppress all the rest of the nation by the corn-lass, be themselves released fmm any share of the impost on that manufac tured corn which goes under the name of malt, a gross injustice will be committed by Parliament if it do not contrive to open the es he irg monopoly in the corn trade, and give some charm to the private brewer of maintaining, through the import of foreign barley, a compe. tition with the landed interest a England. In the article of stamps, there has been, during the last quarter, a falling if of 46,0001. ; and !under the head of miscellaneous, a decline of about 74,0001. In the Post.office there has been a trifling improvement ; and in the article of " Taxes" an increase of 29,0001. CwsowlcLE.—The independence of Belgium has been declared by the Provisional Government, a project of a Constitution is preparing, and a National Congrcu is about to be amembled, to accept or modify the Constitution to be submitted to it. The Dutch are every where withdrawing from Belgium. According to the accounts of the Dutch themselves, Antwerp cannot be much longer retained by them. A Paper published at the Hague, and a known partisan of the Dutch cause, speaks of the urgency of preparing the means of defending their own territory ; and, truly, they say it is lime. "Let the Belgians (they say) be told—Every people has a right to declare what are its duties. its rights and its iutetests. By your conduct and your attitude you have made it evident that you form anothet tietion than ours, and that you no longer wish to be in common with us. Be it so ! We have ✓.either the right nor the power, nor the will to subjugate you. Out so. dal union was operated I:y circumstance% independent of our mutual wishes. The Dutch announce to the Belgians that the sepera don takes place in the most absolute sense; that there *hail be no longer any relation between the two nations, excepting those which shall be afterwards established by treaties between power and power; Mere ilia be no longer isay comitimmily of dynasty. - The separation may be considered as complete. The Dutch begin to look to their own safety; well they mar, 'or winter is at hand, and the Belleau are both more numerous arel mere have than themselves. With respect to Belgium, the oily question now one for the determi. nation of the Beigians themselves, namely, the Government which they shall have. The Prince of I ✓range btu been seeking to conciliate the Belgians, but the die is cast. THE NEW POLICE.-A notice was yesterday read by the clerk, in the church of St. Clement Danes, Strand, stating that a meeting of the inhabitants would be held, t.n ilueaday evening next, at the Vestry-room, to adopt measures for the abolition of the hietropm litan Police Force. The communication was received with marked satisfaction by the coni,regation. A similar notice was read in the church of St. Dunstan's, Stepney. convening a vestry, for the same par- . paw, of the Hamlet of Mile-end Old Town, on Thursday twain. The parishes of St. Anne, Litnebolnc ; St. Paul. Shadwell ; St. John, Wap. ping ; St. George, Hanover-square; St. Mary, Islington, sad St. George's in the East, are about to follow the example ember districts, an d p a dd i ng the King, Lords, sad Commons, for the abolition of sly New Polies. , ' , I V l ► I~