The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-07 00:00:00

All the 'foreign Journals and private letters concur in supporting it. The new Government ought to know the force of this truth as clearly as the whole nation does, and to march forward to t h e accomp li s h ment of i ts mission, in the sen se w hi c h pu bli c op i n i on i ndicates. Afterthoughts and half-measures will assuredly be fatal to it. (Abridged from the same Paper.) There are two principal vices in our financial system mere formalities are multiplied ad infinitum; 2d, the weight of several imposts is excessive. It is necessary that we should take two fold measures : .- - Ist, the omission of one or many of these useless formalities; 2d, the tax on a number of articles ought to be reduced one-half instead of being augmented, as has been the case since 1815 ; for instance, the impost upon distillation ought to be diminished one-brag; the excise upon beer one-fifth ; judicial fees one-half; the proprietors of vineyards might hive remitted the sums still due upon the wines of 1828 and 1829, by a measure analogous to that which the King of Prussia has granted for a part of his states. Those who are strangers to right notions of poli tical economy may think that these reductions will involve the Government in fiaanc4al embarrassments, but the contrary will be the result; for it is a fact that in fiscal arithmetic two and two do not always make four. By these reductions, the bulk of the people will be relieved, tile price of subsistence will be dirsiiiiished,and the circulation of goods and com mercial dealings will be facilitated. Besides the reduction of imposts we must have a strictly economical Government. No civil office ought to receive in payment more than 12,000 f. heyond the expense of the bureau. Every func tiOnary, should receive a fixed salary, and no extra allowances ought to be abolished. Instead of show, and pomp, and sinecures, we ought to have work, plain civic living, and economy. _ Let us recollect, that the m en who effected the fi rst revoluti on in France were contented to dine upon thirty sous a day. The mania for places must be repressed; official employes must not be better off than those who labour in commerce and general Industry. • The following is then given as the summary of the arbitrary and illegal acts of the late King of the Netherlands and his agents " l• The orders of the 27th of March and the 27th of rOctober, 1825, of the 25th of March, 1826, and the 30th i . Se , M em B2B, which submitted some public este- Is u r eettra bor e s inipost of 4. per cent. of annual revenue Upon all property given or bequeathed to them. "2. The orders of the 23d of January, and the 18th of lone, 1828, which imposed upon proprietors of stage coaches barrier duties higher than those paid by private individuals. "8. The Gericke circular of the 15th of December, 1828, which increased the tax of the Journals, contrary to the laws of the 9th and 13th Veuddmaire, year 6. " 4. The order of the 26th of December, 1825, which re-established a tax upon water-ear r i a e •• I tion of the law of the 3dPrimair e , year 7. g in violation " These reforms will have moral consequences of the highest importance, and will render a counter-revolution impossible. " In feet, if it be wished that a revolution shall be irre v,ecalr de, let us act co as that every body must have an in tee est in maintaining the new order of things,—so as that iy would losers by a return to the ancient, regime; in "we must place placelas of people—the men in place 'ad the men out of —in the same tone of evolutionary 111411TIIDAII, OCT. 4. Aetna Deb 2 1 4 per .............. to 403., Areett red e De ..... . .......... . MI6 to 1.16 Dicac. AI per eta tteii to or ti —oio ditto, 3 per cent soi 4 ito 5314 E xtracts from a Rotterdam Paper, dated the 6th.ANT WERP, OCT. 3, NINE IN THE EVENING. (Private L et t er .) To gratify my curiosity r es p ect i ng th e s it u ation horningg of our • troops bet wee n this and Mechlin, I this excursion towards that town. I het a great number of solders, and I saw thousands 11men in whose countenances it was easy to read tie pleasure the progress made by the insurrection Piave them. To-day, at noon, our troops had an olfair with some.Brussels', persiae„ on the road be -Iwenn Vilvorde and Mechlin. In consequence, the artissels diligence could not get on, and returned to 44 „ s t city. The confusion here is inde sc ribabl e . This evening the insurgents attacked an out-post 17 dragoons at Diegbesn, killed two, wounded Mir , and made the rest prisoners. The Mare asses, who would not serve under the Brusse ls Zurgente, have been sent away from that town. ; n il evening I had a conversation with a traveller Ile Brussels who appeared to be a zealous patriot. "o told me that the people there had 100 pieces of %non, and a superabundance of ammunition , as 1411 as of all ki n d s of provisions. Ile says that t he re Ito collected in Brussels a great number of French hen, Spaniards, I ta li ans , Po r t ugu e s e, and other 'reitners and that the Provisional Government has l i ven ord ers f or t h e taking of Bergeo-op-Znom, i! e clas and Bois-le-Doc, which places are to form a Mill nntier line between Belgium and Holland. You readily imagine how little value I set on this toscon edel but a more disagreeable report is now Zairculati on here, namely, that England has de ir d against any interference in our affairs. HAGUE, OCT. 3. poltfaestricht is placed in a state of siege. lam psi ass assured that General 13oecop has not It to in his efforts to obtain a supply of provisions. la probable that the convoy destined for that for gess has been intercepted by . the people of Liege. ROTTERDAM, OT. 4. In the • night of the 30th of Set) tember, a c re. voy provisions, destined for the citadel of ' Liege, left litonestricht, under an escort, consisting of a batta of infantry, : a rtillery a squadron of cavalry,p detachment en with two pieces of ciumon, and a detach tof min ers and sappers. On approaching ifCount d e B erlaimont, who commands the bt "I_,lleals in that town, noti fi ed to the commander Zduce esc.orr, that if his only object was to intro .o,ltt.ovisions into the garrison, it would not be sL.Leu t However, when the convoy reached the e _ l °ls I was attacked, ar id pill age d or d estroye d. 11,74 escort resisted this treacherous conduct, and 1 ,.e__ 14 vigorous attack on the insurgents, the con 41.01u"re of Whi ch was that their guns were dis dro 1 1 the Netherland artillery. The sql . itt- N .. a ?f cutrassiers under the command of Major ) 1 0 Lej then cliiirged the rebels, and killed and e l l; a great number; their loss amounts to . 4 11 , d T h e 00-called Ensign of Verviers fell into our os and w 4 4 , e also obtained possession of the Liege b l° e ll .) b ' r but for want of draught horses they could ti t , cony ough t Oft. . At the same time the object of ,°Y Could not be attained. P"e Head -quarters of his Royal Highness Prince (pred erick were remove d on the 2d to Antwerp. 411 the 2d edition of the Rotterdam Courant, Oct. 5.) II PROCLAMATION issuED AT ROIVERDAM ON 1 ;.`' The Burgomaster THY: OF OCTOBER, y give notice that Under ez. Auth orities of Rotter it e in wing C i rcums ta n ces _ itile greatest importance that the pollee should have ((1,4* knowledge and take good account of all foreigners 011 re at president resident in the city, and who are 441 y arritin esp t i o __ , th e Burgomaster and Authorities above ri_.e.u.r. vAe_itherefore found it .nest to direct as follows: i k tviC e r l E ld l and olbr.ersons who are nut residents of this city t ke the m l e d' after their arrival, to e so ves known at the office of the Police, for the 6,P, 0 1 of explaining the cause of their stay in the city, 7. 1 2 Procure permission to continue there. hi s Those who neglect to comply with the above pro• or, can ewe no satisfactory account of themselves 44 platted under surveillsnee. k w , B the regulations raentiotied in '74 teab le t o all Persons the . first article are are not natives of this city. tiA Bvery person 406.. of it will k _tia,..unn g any one without giving S ach " s e ed llame to a penalty of five guilders penmtiensotwitlistanding this they will be ti,, t ° the other % I Ite directors and agen ' te of the .tteeutiou f h police are charged with i o f t k @ above *dicks { horts at the Stet H .t o tti ur of the city of Rotterdam, on day of Octobee; (Signed ss ht ) the p g r i e li. n e e . o o f ß. VA . /4 VSSELMONDE. VAN OVEN." kill proclamation is followed by till A d ve l tiuernent by the Rotterdam District Committee for the En couragement and Support of the Armed Force of the Netherlands, informing the inhabitants that the undersigned members of the committee will receive subscriptions for soldiers who may be disabled by .wounds in defence of the lawful authority of the Go vernment, and for the widows and children of those who may be killed in the same service.] ?HMIS 07 STOOKS THIS Bank Stock ..... shut 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per ( ent. Cons. ...... 34 per Cent.......... - Ditto Red, shut Sew 334 per Cent, 06%% 4 per Cent. 1925 Bank L. Ann. Did* 30 years l B% Ditto 50 years India Stock thtti. Bonds 59 57 pm. PRICKS OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds ....... 3% Buenos Ayres Bonds Ckilian Bonds Colombian Bonds Ditto, lE , lf) Danish 633f 3 Greek Bonds Ditto, 1825 .,. Guatimala. Mexican Bonds Ditto, 18'2 ; 3634 bo o r r 111 r " "M:g4Co*N I r s 4 ;11•4 ---„,„3431 - • , LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1830. The Moniteur of Tuesday, which is con tained in a Second Edition 91 the Herald of this morning, contains some Royal Ordinances, signed by LOUIS PHILIPPE, and countersigned by the War Minister, by virtue of which a con siderable body of troops is to be called into ser vice. Their departure, however, for their re spective posts will not take place till the 25th of December, so that the measure is evidently merely precautionary, and cannot frighten even the most inveterate alarmist. With regard to France, it will have the good effect of causing her Government to be respected, and enable her to consolidate with greater security and promp• titude those institutions which are the best adapted to her internal welfare. The more despotic Powers of Europe will also find that she is awake to the full extent of the pre sent crisis, and that if interfered with, no matter by whom, she will know how to resent such interference. The Private Correspondent of the same Journal (the Morning Herald) mentions, on what he considers to be sound authority, that the fate of Mince POLIGNAC is all but decided, and that nothing, except " another act of cle mency on the part of the people more glorious than even their generosity to the Garde Royale, can save PoLtarritc." This clemency the writer does not seem to anticipate. DAT AT ON! O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock 103% Old Annu►ties ..... shut New Ditto Ex. Bills, ..el,(100 ild. 64 66 pm. Ditto lid. 64 66 pm. Ditto. .... 64 66 pm. 10. 64 66 pm. Ditto email 2.1. 84 66 pm. Ditto lid. 64 66 pm. Rank for Account India for Account Cons. for Oct 14 BASS% THIS DAT AT ONZ O'CLOCK. , Neapolitan ,Perurian !lords Portuguese Bonds — , Prussian, Old 95% 5 !Ditto, New 97 Russian 9B 7 Spanish, Nil 20 3 4 -1823 14 %!{ 6 French !lentos, sp. c. —L —,. ---- Exchange —l. —c. --- 2 per cent. —f. --,. --- Exchange —f. —c. ROYAL ORDINANCES. " Louis Philippe, King of the French. " Upon the report of our Minister, the Secretary of State of the Department of War. " Having seen the second article of the law of the 9th of June, 1824, and considering nur Ordinance of the 18th September, 1830, which called into activity 40,000 young soldiers of the class of 1829. " Seeing the Ordinnocent the 26th of October, 1825, which summoned a force of 32,000 young soldiers of the class of 1824. " We have ordered, and do order, ae follow Article 1. The 20,000 young soldiers of the class of 1820, are called into service. Their departure will take place on the 25th of December next. " Sixty thousand young troops of the class of 1828 are also called into activity, and their departure is fixed for the 25th of December next. " Twenty-eight thousand young soldiers, the remaining part of the disposable dais of 1824, are also called into service. Their departure will take place on the 25th of December. " These young troops will be divided amongst the divi sions of the naval and military force, according to the ad joining orders. " Our Minister Secretary of State of the War Depart ment is charged with the execution of the present °nil- mince. By the King, " LOUIS PHILIPPE. " The Minister Secretary of State for the Department of War, " MARECHAL COIIPTE GERARD." (From the Quotidienne of Monday.) Some disturbances have broken out at Hanover. On the 14th placards were posted up, demanding the aboli tion of duties and imposts, and claiming general freedom. Some fear was entertained that the corn market would have been plundered, but fortunately this was prevented. The troops were under arms, but they did not find it ne cessary to make any hostile movement, and at eleven o'clock every thing was peaceable. The play of Schiller's termed the Voleurs was advertised for representation the following night, but it was thought prudent to with draw it. " The drawing up of the law for fixing the Civil List has been determined upon, and it will be presented to the Chamber of Deputies after to-morrow. It is believed that the Civil List will amount to twenty millions." We think that the latter part of this statement is more officious than official, considering the present state of the notion, under a Government which is nothing than the phantom of a monarchy, and particularly as the King adopted a system of the most excessive economy. An order has been issued by the Government, directing that the crosses should be removed from all public places in the different cities throughout the kingdom. Private letters from Gard convey an opinion that the tranquillity now existing at Nismes cannot last long. A spirit of discontent is apparent, and nothing but a strong body of troops will be able to secure the public peace. (From the National of Tuesday, Oct. h.) A letter from Toulon, dated Sept. 29, gives the follow ing account ; On the day of the above date Admiral Duperri made his public entry into this city. As early as seven o'clock in the morning the different avenues leading to the arsenal we re thronged with a dense crowd, and a double line of soldiers was formed from the Hotel de Ville to the arsenal, at the interior of which the Admiral was to disembark.— Detachments of the line and the artillery were also sta tioned near the spot. At eight o'clock it was announced by the discharge of the cannon from the Admiral's ship and the ramparts, that Admiral Duperrb had landed from the ship (the Algiers). He was received by M. Duren teau (Prefect of Maine), and by a great number of offi cers of the navy and army. General 13eurinan received him at the gate of the arsenal, and a numerous deputation of the Prefecture of the Marine, where he was visited by the staff and the different authorities. The inhabitants of Toulon expressed great satisfaction at seeing an old officer, whose bravery during the Algerine expedition, and the injustice he had suffered from the former Government, and, finally, his conduct upon the news of the events of July reaching Africa, have obtained for him universal ap probation. The naval force may rely on him for a just recompense of merit. (From La Revolution of Wednesday, Oct. 6.) France has experienced a great disappointment; she thought to have given so strong an impulse to tie me chanism of her Government, as to cause an entire revolu tion, but the wheel work was so much out of order, and their motion kept up so few seconds, that it would he say ing too much to assert that she has made a quarter of a conversion, and we shall not be surprised at seeing her retrograding and falling back into her former position. Belgium more free, more complete in the march of re volution, is sufficient to rouse the courage of all the friends of European freedom. A single spark will often produce an extensive conflagration, and it is with pleasure that we see that patriots of that country understand that the liberty of one people cannot be secured without that of all. We have received a proclamation issued by M. Potter, and which will be found underneath. " APPEAL TO MEN OF THE PRESENT AGE. " The cause of liberty against a blind despotism is de bating 'throughout Enrope at the present day. France pronounced the first sentence, the appeal lies to Belgium. " It is to that quarter that all anund ideas of modern philosophy ought to bend ; it is on that pure soil that all friends of reason and humanity will assemble to colonise COMMA sense, which has been repulsed elsewhere. " Frenchmen !--Belgians!—Germans !—inhabitants of all countries, whose intellects are on a level with those of the age, the day has at last arrived to realize that brilliant Utopia of a wise economical Government, and particu larly one independent of the weakness or folly of a single individual. " May a noble ardour force you forward from ali parts of the globe. It is not sufficient to say that the world is on the march. it is absolutely necessary to march with it. " These are opportunities which can only be once seised. Woe to him who does not know how to take advantage of these. "The welfare of mankind is in our hands, and we should be criminal in the extreme if we allowed it to escape." (Signed) L. DE POTTER. (rßom OUR CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, OCT. 5: From the demi-official report of the proceedings in the Chamber of Peers yesterday, which you will find in the Tenips of this day, you will perceive that the trial of the Ex-Ministers cannot be commenced before the Ist of next month. The intermediate time will be spent by the accused, no doubt, in preparations for their defence, and by their friends, in exertions to deprecate the public wrath. To prejudge the fate, or speculate upon the lives of men, may not be a matter of good taste, but in an affair of this nature, the public will look for the earliest authentic in telligence with impatience. That which I have acquired and am about to communicate, will, I have myself, not the least doubt, prove correct. It is from a person peculiarly qualified to pronounce an opinion. Here are his words:— " The result of the trials will be in exact conformity with the views and the indirect recommendation of the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, by whom the Act of Accusation was drawn up. Nothing that the human mind can suggest, except another act of clemency on the part of the people more glorious than even their genero. city to the Garde Royale, can save Polignac. lie will be condemned ►o death. A slight shade of distinction be tween his guilt and that of Peyronnet (favourable to the latter) has keen drawn in the Report. That distinction will be recognised and adopted by the Peers. Peyronnet will he sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment awl con fiscation of his property.— Chantelauze and Guernon Ren ville will be banished for life." Although I am convinced that this prediction will be verified, I have still some hope that the sentence antici pated against the principal of the accused, will not be car ried into effect. The King is decidedly against further capital punishment•,—aad, happily, the feeling of the ma jority of the nation is in union with that of his Majesty. The discussion on the subject in the Chamber of Deputies, this day, on the motion of M. de Tracy, will, it is ex pected, prove that the sense of that body is against the in. fiction of the pain of death ; but from that contemplated amelioration of the penal code the Ex-Ministers can hope for nothing, although M. de Polignac, when in conversa tion with M. Mellen Birrat, at St. Loo, seemed "to cal culate upon it. I repeat that the only chance 1w has of escape from the sentence of the law, is a new proof of the predominance of pity and generosity in the bosom of the French over thirst of blood and vengeance. BOURSE, TIMEX o'cLocx. The levy of troops ordered by the Ordonnance to be found in the Moniteur of this day, has already produced on the Funds its natural consequence. At thin moment the price of the Three per Cents. have fallen to 63. Spa. niah Stock has equally tumbled : the Itentes Perpetuelle are down to 37. I am inclined to think, nevertheless, that this panic is premature, and that the measure in question is merely precautionary, but the accidental absence of the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian Ministers from the dinner given in London by the Duke of Wellington, at which Prince Tal leyrand was present ; and the absence of the Ministers of the same Powers from the soirees of Count Mole here, is one which caus,s considerable uneasiness. The tedium of M. Vassal and Co. is for 15,000,000fr5. M. Vassal attempted suicide yesterday, but was fortunately prevented. lie sent in his resignation this day as one of the Representatives of Paris in the Chamber of Deputies. You will read with interest the commencement of the debate on the Corn Laws in the Chamber of Deputies this day, which I enclose. I am informed that the resolution of M. de Tracy far abolishing capital punishments, and which was to have come on this day in the Chamber of Deputies, has been rejected by the Committee to which it was referred ; but that another, drawn up by M. Beranger, founded on that of M. de Tracy (with qualification, however), is to be in troduced this evening in its room. FOUR O ' CLOCK. The most gloomy reports respecting commercial houses, considered hitherto as independent of all casualty, are in circulation on the Bourse, and contribute still further to depress the Punt'''. The Three per Cents have recovered to the extent of 0 centimes. Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated September 28 : —" The small moderate party in the Ministry, whose views inspired with some degree of hope the minds of the friends of order and of the welfare of their country, has been forced to yield to the influence and intrigues of the Apostolics, Calomarde, and Zeniltrano. Ballasteros, Sal mon , and Salazar, bad conceived the idea of inducing the King to convoke the cortex by estamentos, 00 the occasion of the delivery of the Queen. Called together under pre tence of being consulted on the steps that the Government ought to pursue under existing circumstances, and of pro viding for its present wants, they would have been invited to acknowledge the new-born child as heir to the Crown. The King at first seemed to smile upon the project, and those who proposed it appeared to reckon upon the mode ration of the Deputies so far as to induce the King to publish a manifesto, which would, as much as possible, repair in the public opinion the non-observance of the decrees promulgated on the 14th of May, 1814. at Valentin, and on the 30th of Sept., 1823, at Cadiz. This measure was to be accompanied by a general amnesty. To this plan became necessarily attached the project of instituting two Chambers, one of which, the Upper Cham ber, was to have been formed of the nobility and clergy; and the other, the Lower Chamber, was to have been elected by the most wealthy land-owners. Such were the views of the moderate party, but the secret was denounced by the apostolice, and an immediate convocation of that faction, with their secret conferences and other manoeuvres, ensued. The system of intrigue resumed its force with indefatigable ardour, the inclinations of the King were sounded, and be was soon found disposed to maintain ab►o lute power to its utmost extent. From this moment all the prospects of Ballasteros, Salmon, and Sal,zar were overthrown. Circulars were secretly despatched to the provinces, Several of the Chiefs who had distinguished themselves by their zeal in the ranks of the army of the faith, were sent for to Madrid, to receive their orders from the apostolic directory, and accordingly hastened to the capital. The results of those manoeuvres must be de plorable. Accounts from Lisbon state, that Don Miguel had em barked on board a ship of war all the powder that was in the arsenal. Ile was under alarm that the people on some sudden eruption should either get possession of it, or blow up the place. The Government of Geneva observing the agitation among the working classes of the town, iu consequence of the fermentation in Sunny, Piedmont, and Fribourg, augmented as it is by the high price of bread, has assem bled alt the officer* of the Burgher Guard, in order to consider and adopt measures to prevent or repress disturbances. The King has granted a pension of 20,000 francs per annum, to the widow of Marshal Ney. It is asserted that the Duke de Ragusa has sent in his oath as Peer of France, and even as Marshal. Mr. James O'Gorman Alabon has artived at Paris with the address of the inhabitants of the city of Dublin. The Chamber of Peers assembled yesterday as a Court of Justice ► and sat in deliberation from a quarter past twelve to half past four. The number of Peers present was greater than usual, about forty only being absent. It is raid that at the opening of the sitting► it was decided that the President should hasten to acquaint ail the P e ers absent from Paris, or out of France, with the important duties they were called to fulfil, and that in order to give time to such as are on missions abroad to return to the capital. The let of November has been fixed on as the earliest period for receiving the report of the judicial com mission of examination, composed of the President, anti Messrs. &quiet., Bastard, and Douleet de Poutecoulant. The Noble Court immediately pea sal to the discussion of the mode of proceeding. A Noble Peer, who formed a part of the Ministry of 1828, adopting the principle that all justice emanates from the King, is stated to have pro posed the intervention of the Law Officer, of the Crown in order to acquire, if there be ground for it, the application of the law ; it seemed to him that the Commissioners of the Chamber of Deputies being only able, accordirg to their mission, to support the impeachment, would not possess tliat character of impartiality which distinguishes the law officers. Messrs. Lamm, Portalis, Decazen, and St. Aulaire, op posed this opinion ; which was supported by Count Le mercier. They maintained that it was needless to call the law officers, because they would be placed in a 6ituation beneath that of the three Commissioners of the Cham ber of Deputies ; that their part in the impeachment would be null and without object ; that as to the ob serrance and application of the laws, the Chamber, as a supreme power in an affair out of common law, was completely master to determine the forms, and even resolve on the punishment, and that at the same time that this jurisdiction was circumscribed by the terms treason and peculation it was not confined to the application of any law. The precedents of the Court of Peers, moreover, are in conformity to this opinion, which we are assured prevailed. We hear that M. de Chabrol and the Duke de Grammont wrote to the President to ex cuse themselves. The Court admitted the excuse of the Duke upen the ground that he is brother-in-law of the Prince de Polignac ; hut the excuse of M. de Chabrol was not re ceived. The Court came to a resolution which will be made publicoand will determine the forms; after which the ju dicial examination is to be conducted. By the Flanders Mail, which arrived this morning, we have the decrees of the Provisional Government of Belgium, to the effect that that country shall in future form an indepen dent state ; that a plan of a Constitution (what an opportunity for JERRY BENTHAM !) shall as soon as possible be drawn up ; and that a General Congress shall be convoked, in which all the interests of the country shall be rigidly consulted. The affairs of Belgium, then, are at length about to assume something like a settled aspect. And what a slight circumstance has hastened the period of its independence ! The slightest particle of common sense on the part of Prince FREDERICK, and of good faith on the part of the KING, would have retarded, though it could viot ultimately have prevented the emancipation of the Belgians. It is singular, and at the same time characteristic of the two countries, that while the States. General were idly deliberating at the Hague, the Pro visional Government was actively working at Brussels. (From the Journal de la Belgique of Wednesday, Oct. 6.) astissats, OCT. 5. The Provisional Government has appointed Count Francois de Robiann, Governor of the province of Ant werp, as the chief town is in the occupation of the enemy : he is to fix his residence as near it as possible : he will immediately direct his attention to the organization of the administration of the province, and will make a report to Government on the state of affairs. TbirProvisional Government also enjoins this Governor to make all the authorities of the province adhere to the cause of Belgium, and to propose to the Government the nomination to office of those persons whoare judged the most worthy of the general confidence, asknowledge and probity are the qualities required. The corps of Volunteers which were at Vilvorde received orders the day before yesterday to be in the city again by day-break. They set out on Monday at half-past three in the morning, and arrived at Brtosels at six. Scarcely half an hour after they left Vilvorde, 1,500 Dutch ap peared there. ' They soon left it and returned to their position near Sem, st. The inhabitants of Hassell have just declared them. selves. The same has happened at St. Frond, which began by seizing the Marechaussee, whom they have put under confinement. The fortress of Delimit has submitted ; the Dutch garrison are prisoners of war. This conquest is due to the courage of the inhabitants of Denant and the ad jacent communes, who summoned the fort to surrender, and were preparing to attack it by force. The materiel and ammunition were considerable. The citadel of Namur has been given up to-day. Baron Stassart the Governor of the Province, accom panied by a great number of horsemen, went to fetch Lieutenant-General Van Geen, who was escorted to his residence in the city. M. de Stassart then returned to the citadel at the bead of 2000 citizens, and hoisted the flag of Brabant, which was saluted by a discharge of artillery. The Dutch soldiers of the garrison left in the night, taking the road to Luxemburg. Atesirs. de Drinker; and Sarlet de Chokier, deputies of Lemburg, have returned from the Hague. The Provisional Government announces that a second mission to Prince Frederick's bead-quarters has been as fruitless as the first; the Prince still insists on the ex change en masse of all the prisoners we have taken, for the few Belgian citizens who are prisoners to the Dutch ; this is inadmissible. The Provisional Government announces that Messrs, Ducpetiaux, Plentinckx and Everard, who are in the psi. son of Antwerp, are treated with humanity and attention, THE INDEPENDENCE OF BELGIUM. The Provisional Government, considering that it is of importance to fix the future condition of Belgium, decrees— ). The provinces of Belgium, violently detauhed from Holland, shall form an independent State. 2. The central committee will, us soon as possible, draw up a plan of a Constitution. 3. A General Congress, in which the interests of the provinces shall be represented shall be convoked. It will examine the proposed Belgic Constitution—shall snottily it where it is necessary, and will cause it to be executed in all Belgium as the definitive Constitution. DE POTTER, CII. ROGIER, S; VANDEMEYER, Count FELIX DE %hIRODE. (By Order) J. VANDERLINDEN, Secretary. Brussels, Oct. 4, MO. The following are extracts from German and Frankfort Papers, received this morning:— numsit rausstA, SEII. 23. Public Journals contain very different and incorrect statements respecting the strength of the Prussian troops already assembled in the provinces on the Rhine, or that are expected there. According to the most credible ac counts, in addition to the corps of Rhenish Prussia, those of Saxony and Westphalia will ha quartered in those pro vinces. The amount of each corps without the reserve which- is .not with them, cannot be taken at more than 13,000 or 14,000, which would make a total of 12,000 men. The fortreans en the Belgic frontier have strong garrisons ; for instance, Malmedy, the garrison of which has been reinforced to the amount of 1,300 men. Since the disturbances of Aix-la•Chapellc, a few weeks Ap o public tranquillity has not been for a moment interrupted then. The situation of Verviera is very gloomy. The general insecurity of property, the high ptice of raw materials, and, lastly, the pecuniary embarrassments of many manufactu rers, particularly of those who carried on their business in port with the and of foreign capital, and whom the failure of the house of Rigoud has deprived of every resource, have been - obliged partly to limit and partly to suspend their operations they have in consequence discharged many thousand worktnen, and these people, without bread and without employment, again endanger the public tranquil lity. In order to get rid of them as well as possible, they have been advised to go to Brussels, where their aid may soon be necessary to maintain the newly acquired free dom. Some money has been given them to support them by the way. The French Papers give full particulars of an animated speech made by M. ETIENNE in the Chamber of Deputies on the suppression of all Jesuitical influence throughout France. The speaker gave a spirited sketch of the character of these designing priests, of their insatiable am bitinu, their matchless duplicity, their shrewd ness, their despotism, and their utter destitution of all public principle ; and in allusion to their influence during the reign of CHARLES the TENTH, observed, that « by degrees they ob tained the distribution of every favour and every office, and, infusing their poison into the Royal cradle, and down . to the lowly crib of the cot tape, it may be truly said that they had ob tained universal influence till the 25th of July came, to prove that they had attained absolute power. The terrible fall they then experienced ought not to cause the Government to be supine as to their projects, which, it is well known, are never relinquished. They ever tend to re unite their- scattered remnants, even when ap parently annihilated. The society resumes its form and consistence by degrees—it continues to watch every weak point—discovers, excites, and foments every discord, and where it can not dominate, conspires secretly. The fallen Government fostered it with every care, be cause it was a fellow-conspirator. It bends itself with wonderful ability, and exercises its delusions equally on both Kings and people. In proportion as it was the ac complice of the fallen Government, which it had entirely subjugated, and with which it marched to the violent destruction of our liber ties, so will it be the more inveterate enemy of an authority founded upon rights that are most hateful in its sight." France can never be looked on as altogether tranquil, so long as these subtle religious politicians are allowed to possess the slightest influence in the kingdom. They should be stripped of all power, and that with energy and promptitude, or they will yet, detected as their evil machinations are now, and have been for years, be the means of in flicting incalculable mischief on the Govern ment and the people. From their very first formation, as a sect, they have ever been restless, intriguing, and unprincipled. It is high time to grapple with and strangle this hydra-headed monster. On the subject of the Press the Mi nister of the Interior observed that he should shortly bring a measure under discussion, not for a general legislation of the Press, but merely for a change of jurisdiction. And surely not before it is wanted, for however free comparatively speaking, the French Press may be, it has not even yet acquired that degree of freedom to which it is entitled, if' it can expect to be beneficial to the country ; neither is it altogether so free, as it ultimately might be made under the superin tending activity of a new Chamber. With re gard to the Corn Laws, M. GUIZOT remarked, By the present legal prices, no corn can come in by the southern frontier. The project of law proposes a diminution of five francs on the duties of importation, and this measure appears to inc sufficiewt to ensure a considerable importation of Corn." Ws hope that in the ensuing session of Parliament, the oppressive monopoly of the Corn Laws will be looked into with as much fairness and activity as seems now to be the case in the French Chamber of Deputies. By the Dutch Papers we find, that the KING has closed the States-General, and appointed a Commission to draw up the legal enactments which must be necessary to make those changes in the fundamental law, and in the existing re lations between the two great divisions of the kingdom, which the interest of the whole re quire. The Provisional Government will not now, we suspect, he inclined to pay much re spect to any measures that this Commission may think fit to . propose. The time for cour tesy and conciliation is past. A correspondent in the Times states that the Prussian Government has resolved to imitate France in abstaining from all interference with the Belgian affairs. SHIPPING INTELLICIENCR-(THIS DAY. FROM LLOYD'S. DRAL, OCT. 6.—Arrived the Courier packet, Palmer, from the Cape of Good Hope ; and Matilda, Cumin, from the Mauritius. FALMOUTH, OCT. b.—Arrived the Agaphia, Aguew t from Port-au•Priuce. Lummox., Ocr. s.—A.rrired the Albion, Steel, from Bordeaux; William Davidson, Ritchie, from Riga; Walker, Tennant, and Ainiwell, Henderson, from St. Petersburgh. COURT CIRCULAR. His MAJESTY held a Court at one o'clock yesterday afternoon at his Palace, in St. James's, which was at tended by the Prince ThounaTzKot (on a special mission from the Emperor of Russia), the French Ambassador, the Neapolitan, Swedish, and Wurtemberg Ministers, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board of Trade, the President of the Board of Control, Viscount Bralsroan, Lord WILLOUG nor d'Ealsnr, Rae. The Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman Canwora), the Sheriffs (Mews. Pohawn and MaasnahL) of London and Middlesex, the Recorder of London, accompanied by the Deputy City Remembrancer, arrived at - the Palace about two o'clock, attended by the sword and mace-bearers, and the City Marshals, for the purpose of inviting his MAJESTY to dine with the Loan MAYOIL and Common Council. The Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, and the Deputy City Remembraneer, were introduced to an audience of the Km: by the Secretary of State fur time Home Department. Hie MAJESTY was graciously pleased to accept the invitation, and named Lord Mayor's Day on which he would honour the Corporation with his company to dinner. The Prince PE TAILLEYRAND wits introduced to an audience of his Maixary by the Earl of Antentrami, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and (=ducted by Sir Roue al! thluvrzn, the Master of the Ceremonies, when bit Excellency delivered his credentials front the King of the FRISCH. Prince TUOUHETZKOI, ►tussian Ambastiador, on a special Hamann, had an audience of the KING, when his Excel lency took leave of his MAJESTY. Count LtinaLF, Ambassador from Naples and Sicily, html nn audience to compliment his MAjEftTY on his accession. Count RIORNST.ItaNA was introduced to his MAJM:StY by the Earl of Auxonaror, conducted by Sir ►toaemmr ChiltiTYK, the Master of the Ceremonies, and delivered letters from the King of Strank:N. Count MANnesLott had an audience of his IkrAittsTr i when his Excellency delivered credentials front the King of Wu ItTEMBER4I. His MaJtsTy held n Privy Council, Lord WILLOUGHBY D'ERICABY", A member of his late Maatzsres Most Honour- able Privy Council, was i.e.-sworn a member of the Privy Council. 'flare new teals for bit 111.17ENTY'l Principal Secretaries of State were submitted to the KING in Coun cil, and approveillof. Mr. BuLt.t.it attended as Clerk, We have just seen a specimen of the litho graphic art, showing in what way, and with what extreme facility it may be applied to almost every branch of en graving. The specimen is ingenious and creditable to the abilities of its artist. For some days past there has been consider. able discussion respecting the price at which beer should he sold, with reference to the sum intended to he charged per barrel by the brewers in pursuance of their circular. Several Licensed Victuallers have notified that they will sell their porter, some at a fair remunerating price, and others lower, so as not to leave any profit to the retaliation. When there is so great a diversity of opinion among the trede, it would be desirable that the Licensed Victuallers should hare a public meeting and agree on the price that really should be charged for the article, allowing themselves ,a fair profit on the good and wholesome beer which they vvo to t h e i r cus t o m ! a,.....Aforniny Ativerthier. OLD BAILEY.-(TIIIS DAY.) CAPTAIN 1-IEI.BIIA MN CASE. This being the day appointed for Dialling the Corn. mission to try Captain lielsbam, who is charged with the wilful murder of Lieutenant Crowther in a duel in France, the Com t was opened at half-pas. nine o'clock. Shortly afterwards Mr. Justice Bayley, Mr. Justice Mean quet, and the Recorder took their scant. On the bench were also the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Sir James Sh vw, Sir Peter Laurie, Farebrother, Winchester, Copeland, and Atkins. The witnesses for the prosecution had previously assembled in a room that was prepared for them. The Commission having been read, the names of the gentle. Men summoned on the Gram! Jury acre called over. One gen. tleman named Simpson, claimed an exemption. Mr. Justice BAYLEY—On what grounds, Sir Y Simpson—l be. Icing to the Honourable Artillery Company, and our charter ex.. empty all members of that corps from serving on Juries, and from the liability to fill certain offices. Mr. Justice HAVEUV—slave you the charter in Court, Sir ? Mr. Simpson—No, I have not, my Lord ; but the terms of it are well 'known, and have been acted upon.* Mr. Justice liavtxv—Untess the charter is produced the Court can take no legal notice of it. Mr. Simpson—lt is enrolled in the Court of Chancery. Mr. Justice Ilavi.ur —That does not signify. The charter must be produced, or the Court cannot act upon it. The Commission having been read by the Clerk of the Ar. raiens ' and the necessary number of gentlem e n sworn on t h e Grand Jury, Mr. Justice BATLEY addressed them to the following eftbet : . 1 Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, you are assembled here to-day by virtue of a Commission issued by his Majesty, under a late Act of Parliament, not for the tri a l of any crime committed in this country, but for one alleged to have be e n comm itt e d i n France. You are averiffiled, not at the ordinary time of hold. ing the Sessions, but in consequence of is Commission under the Great Seal. An Act was passed In the ninth year of his late Ma. jesty's reign, which enacted that, 'f any of his Majesty's subjects should be charged, in England , with the murd e r o r mans l aug h ter of a fellow-subject abroad, that it should be lawffil, although the murder or manslaughter was committed In a throgn country, to try the individual so charged in England. The bill which will now be brought before you is one for you to Inquire and deter mine whether the °Ohne° charged amounts to one of murder or manslaughter .against the person named in the indictment. Your first inquiry will be whether or not the parties are subjects of this realm, as no others but his Majesty's subjects can be atlicted by the ct of Parliament to which 1 have alluded. It clothes them (VI may use such an expression) with particular security, al.. though out of the limits of the country. It will be necessary to have the evidence of some one who knew the deceased, that ho had, at some time or other, domiciled in this country ; and if you are satisfied on its points, your next in qu iry will b e to satiny your minds whether the offence is one of murder or man.- slaughter. Upon referring to the depositions, there can be no doubt a duel has been fought, and therefore, in point of law, If parties deliberately meet, armed with deadly weapons, calculated to put the lifh of each other In jeopardy(forlie man bas a right to take away the Mb of another or his own), and if death is the result of such meeting. there can be no doubt that the otßnee isa one of murder; and if you are not satisfied such was the ewe in the present instance, it will be your bounden duty' to find a true bill. If parties suddenly quarrel, and ensue are At hand, if there is no premeditation in the persons seeking for an Instrume nt . then, in such a case, the law makes an allowance for the infir mities of bunion nature, and, irdenth ensues, the oftbnce is o n ly B one of manslaughter. But If parties quarrel, and they atter. wards premeditately, and alter time for reflection, meet anal on each others life in danger, then it is clearly murder. It will !waist) necessary in this cake to prove that the deceased's mono Is pro. perly set forth in the indictment ; but on this %with, perhaps, there will be little dltHculty, as some of the rel a t ions , no doubt, saw the body atter death. Yotr‘ought also to be atisfied that the deceased fell by the hands of the person accused, or some one aiding or abetting; for this Commission does not online itself to the principals, but extends also to the seeonds, And have no doubt that if the case is one of murder, every person that was present is equally guilty, and a bill might to be re. turned against them. file swan& on both sides, and all others; are in law equally guilty of murder, lion they met there for the purpose of furthering the common design or putting the life of some one in danger. It will be right for you to put the wit. maws on their guard, for,aa I have already stated, every person present was liable to the charge, and therefore they arts not own pellable to give evidence that may criminate themselves. On the trial berate a common Jury it is the dusty of a Judge to give such a caution, and I think it will be well for you to observ:), the same course. They are at liberty to state all, but they can— not be compelled. lam not aware that It Is necessary t'ur make any further observations; if in the discharge of your duty ou tied any difficulty, the Court will be happy to g i ve y ou any • information. The Grand Jury then retired, after an absence of some time they returned into Court, when the Foreman said that it was their opinion that a great inconsistency presentoxl itself on the face of the indictment. It charged the murder to have been committed at Boulogne, in the kingdom of France To wit, ha the parish of St. Marysle.Bow, Bread-street Ward, in the city of London, in the county of Middlesex." It therefore appeared to them that the ()Once was charged to have been committed in two places, and under such tarcumstanuea could not HMI a true bill. Mr.' Justice Baiter said, the objections of the Jury wore • merely to the technicalities of legal proocaxibes, with which they had nothing to do. They had no relation to the subject matter under inquiry. A Juror—Hut, my Lord, as merchants of the city of London, and not knioving any thing of the technicalities of the late, bit acting on Vie principles of plain common sense, how can we re.' concise such an absurdity—such an inconsistency V Mr. Justice Raney—You may strike out the objectionable words if you think proper. The Jury atter some . A - nther observations again withdrew. The Jury again returned into Court at a quarter past One o'clock. Air. Justice Rams' saki that he had been consulting with Ms Learned Brothers, and they were of opinion with hint that It was necessary to insert a count In the indictment, setting forth that the deceased was a British subject. A Juror—We are quite satisfied on that point, my Lord. Mr. Justice ilaytxv—So you may be, Gentlemen ; but before you make your presentment, It will be neces s ary to have the in. dictment amended. it is required by the Act of Parliament to set With that the deceased was a British subject, The indictment was amended, and the Foreman of the Jury then said—" We find a true bill against Captain ilelsliam for the wilful murder of Lieut. Crowther." Captain Ilelsham was then pliu;lat the Bar, and the Indict+ meta read over—he pleaded Not Guilty. The Cutcat indbrined the prisoner that his tri►l would he proceeded with at ten o'clock to.morrow morning. Mr. Y►ut.r.reA was Colima! kir the prosectillo , and Mr. AtAte and Mr. Donau for the defence. THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY). ----- GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OFRBI'II3II CORN, For the Week ended Oct. I, 11430, made up Winn the Returns of the Inspectors in the ditllirent Cities and Towns in England and Wales, pet linperlal Quarter. 011.1 Oats 4. 1111.1 40s. It} e 335. 10d 111 iNPURIAL AGORUCIATU AVORAUIti Or TUE .IX magas Notes:4)lNQ, &LI Oats 4u. I'd.' Rye 113.1. 41t. 041. Dirritti ON FOREIGN CORN, 234. &LI t)ats 1/s. &LI W. HAI Rye 19A. Shl,l Pease THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, Port-au-Prince Papers have been received et the North and South Americrn Coffee-house to the 16th August; they state that the Bishop of St. Domingo, with 84 Priests, had left in an American vessel on the ?Nth July tor the Havannah ' the cause of his leaving is that h e wou ld not sanction the new order of things. Recent news from Algiers state that the army is now divided into two divisions, instead of .three as form rr l v . The Bey of Constantine was flinching to attack Algiers, but retreated in consequence of receiving advice that his throne was occupied by another person ; a bloody battle took place, and the usurper was killed ; the 1.117 is Again placed on his throne, and has renounced all operations against the French, and has sent his submission to General Clause!. Tim 1 , 111414. We have very scanty arrivals this morning, lint the tle. ficiency is amply made up by the exprestes from Paris, by which we have the important information of a new levy of troops in France of 108,000 men, is attri• bated, by our city politicians, to make up the deficiency of the disbanding the Swiss troops and those sent to Algiers, This new Decree and the two immense ttilures cot tainly caused some panic at Paris. Our Consul market, in consequesce of the above events, has become heavy ; Console, which left otT yesterday se 87 for the account, opened this morning at 84 and at present may be quoted at 86 87. Irt the Foreign market there is little doing as yet. IiNtSLIVII FUNDS a% per Cent. .- 4 per Cent. new, tX;% 4 per Cent, InLvs, lathe Matta, 5769 Est:hover WIN, tit tin FUNDS, Greek, .AN HOt4 Mexican, 714 Pesurtan, 17 Portuguese, !Si H Pet uaisu, 7k, Spanish, layi, sy TIL F. PAST ONR. The flatulent mail has arrived, but the letters will not be delivered till after two o'clock. The letters from Rotterdam State flow the Prince of Orange was going to Brussels. Our City speculators are touch punted with the levy of the 108,000 men: in France; it it imagined that the French will march a large force to the frontiers of Belgium, as an army of observation. The partial change in our Ministry causes Some soma.. tion ; it is said Lord P.tlmetston and his fi hinds ore again to return to office. It is also reported that the dispute in the Cabinet was relative to Don Miguel. Console have been done at tint fur the acenunt, and at prevent they are ti if ; in the early part of the day a sale took place of 80,01)0, which esisswa a turn in the market. in the Foreign Funds there is little or nothing doing, and prices are much the same as yesterday. 0' CL 0 Cr. Brink Stnek i Indic, Stock, t.l(yi 3 per Cent. COllll. 130„,' 1)o. for Aectnatt s 804 % Ditto Itedured. FO 11E1 0 Braid) Ri Menu. Ayres, 28 7 Chi Liam, ;!ftt/ 4L; Oilers - ague, 1144 Danish, MN 3%, French S per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cont..— Consols, 866. We ere requested to state, that Mt% STEELY. has not left Ireland to juin firma and the other Spanish patriots at Bayonne, as bursa in our paper of yesterday, but has leturnett.te Ireland for the purpose of attending to his private ttif4irs..— Tinos. Prince I'ALLEYRAND, ftecompanied by his niece, the Duchess of Dwo, takes 4 Lily drives iu a pkin yellow eoach, viewing the improvements which have taken place in and about the metropolis. On Saturday they were driven slowly along the Strand for that purpose. The opening of King -street into St. Jameres street is neatly finished, by which meant a cvtputtica.. tine will h e a ff or d e d b etween At. James's-4,1 u of the principal streets of the metropol4,-111441 - hitherto been closed up by a small court, 4: 4 0411- kiilk its.ran NIT"